Creative Writing April 21 - 23

A to Z Creative Writing.  Respond to each prompt in three or more sentences.  Write your responses on loose-leaf or email them to hedgesd@schools.nyc.gov

• How many?   Each prompt requires 10 to 15 minutes, minimum.  
• You receive class work credit for every three you complete.  
• You receive an additional point for sharing out to your group or the class if the class wishes to hear your work.  (We'll vote).  
• The class could receive and additional point for listening.  
• Silent pauses must be made for each passing train.  
• Using train time appropriately counts toward your final grade.  (E, H, and J Bands understand what that means)

1. Write yesterday’s horoscope.  (Don't read it, make it up based on today's events)
2. Write a thank-you note for a weekend visit where everything went wrong.
3. Describe an electronic device in the future that you won’t know how to operate.
4. What can happen in a second?
5. A houseplant is dying.  Tell it why it needs to live.
6. Do you think about travel?  Would you like to see other parts of the world?  What are some of the obstacles that keep you from traveling?
7. Something you had that was stolen
8. What a character holding a blue object is thinking right now
9. Your college roommate
10. Tell your kidnapper about a beloved family tradition.
11. Pick a small object to be given one day to your great-grandchild.  Write a letter to that child explaining why you have chosen this object.
12. A storm destroys your favorite uncle’s car.  Describe the color of the sky right before the storm hit.
13. Name the trees you pass on your way to school and home everyday.
14. You are a woman who is fired after only a week on the job.  A week earlier, the person who is firing you was very persuasive in convincing you to take the job.  What did she say to convince you to take the job.
15. What could have happened to you in high school that would have altered the course of your life?
16. Put two people who hate each other in an elevator for 12 hours.  What happens?
17. You receive a mysterious message from outer space.  What does it say?
18. Outline four points of the platform for your "third party" candidate.
19. What would you do if you weren't afraid?
20. You are twelve and you just saw aliens break your big sister's bike.  Your parents are going to think you did it.  Convince them that it was the aliens.
21. Write the dialogue between two neighbors chatting over the fence about the weather.  One is modest and the other is pompous.  They despise each other, but are too polite to let on.
22. Continue this story:   After the rioting seemed to have ended, our hunger got the best of us, and we ventured out for some pizza…..
23. Write a story that has the title: "They Slept On The Kitchen Floor"
24. This is the last line of a story.  "She read the note, folded, and nudged it with her foot into the gutter."  Write the beginning of the story.  "
25. Write ten ways to fill in the blank on this sentence: He didn't realize ______________________________________  until it was too late.
26. Write tomorrow's horoscope.  (Don't read it, make it up.  Use your imagination.