Writing Ideas
- http://www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet/index.html Visit this site, make a poem (more than 5 lines) and write it into your blog — or take a screenshot and upload it !!)
- Journal Topics 1
- Journal Topics 2
- Pick ten people you know and write a one-sentence description for each of them.
- Write a radio talk show. Structure your piece after one you have heard — include the dialogue, patter, news & traffic reports.
- Write a 500-word auto- biography of your life.
- Write your obituary –List all of your life’s accomplishments. You can write it as if you died today or fifty or more years in the future.
- Write a 300-word description of your bedroom.
- Write a fictional interview with yourself, an acquaintance, a famous figure or a fictional character. Do it in the style of an appropriate (or inappropriate) magazine or publication such as Time, People, Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen or Maxim.
- Visit www.news.com.au or http://www.smh.com.au/ and look at the articles for the day — find one that interests you and use it as the basis for a scene, story or monologue.
- Keep the imaginary diary of a fictional character.
- Choose a passage from a book and rewrite the passage in a different style such as noir, gothic romance, pulp fiction or horror story.
- Choose a passage from a book and rewrite the passage as a film scene or play script — appropriate setting out must be used.
- Pick an author, one you like though not necessarily your favorite, and make a list of what you like about the way they write.
- Analyze what elements of an author writing style
- Write a review of the latest movie you have seen.
- Rewrite one of your own stories from a different point of view.
- Try to identify your earliest childhood memory. Tell it as if you witnessed it rather than experiences it.
- Remember an old argument you had with another person. Write about the argument from the point of view of the other person. Remember that the idea is to see the argument from their perspective, no your own. This is an exercise in voice, not in proving yourself right or wrong.
- Write a 200-word description of a place. — use as many sensory descriptions as you can – describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and even tastes like.
- Write a description of a place that does not include the visual elements.
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September 6, 2006 @ 5:03 am
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