Writing prompt

Pick two people from the photo.70's crowd

Part 1

Answer these questions about each of them:

Question 1: Why are they distracted?

Question 2: When they see this photo ten years later, what’s the first thing that comes to mind?

Part 2

They meet for the first time on the way home from this event. Write about this, include plenty of dialogue.

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Writing prompt – starting sentence

Choose a novel or a short story. Turn to the beginning. Write down the first sentence.Studio_20150827_073026 Now rewrite the sentence, changing something, anything. It could be a name, the point of view, one word, several words.

Using your new sentence as a starting point, write for 15 minutes. Try not to pause, censor or edit. Just see where it goes.

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Writing prompt – found objects

Collect some objects when you’re next outside. Could be anything. A broken pen, a stone, a piece of unrecognizable plastic…

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When you’re ready to write, pick one of these objects. Ask yourself, what is its story?

 

Write for 15 minutes. Try not to pause or edit.

 

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