Prompts
for November 3, 2012
- What does it mean to be a “writer in community”? What is a “community”? How is “community” relent to the “solitary life of an artist”? Does an artist or their work/working process necessarily have to be “solitary”? What are some means of improving the “community of the artist” and helping to bring “the solitary life of an artist” into a “community”?
- What does it mean to be “an artist within a 'culture'”? Do each “cultures” relegate certain forms or social restrictions/codes of appearance/codes of action and acceptable form upon an artist? What are your “cultures” and what are the rules associated with them? How do these “cultures” limit your freedom of expression, and how do they enhance it? If they are limiting, how might you work to break out of that creative hindrance? If they are liberating, how might you share that freedom of expression, or helpful mode of inspiration or creative insight with another person/”culture”/the community at large?
- What does it mean to be an “artist” to you? What are your modes of expression, and how do they help you become a “better person” through “bettering” your artistry?
Essay
(Non-Fiction):
Getting
Ideas:
- Write a short-story involving one of your characters. Use this as an opportunity to tell your reading something new about this character, something you won't necessarily be using in your work. It can be a serious event, action/adventure oriented, or a funny moment in the life of the character. The short-story should tell us something we don't know about the character, and help us to see more of the true nature of this person.
- What are the most important values to your character(s), and do any of these values represent aspects of yourself or people you know or have encountered, or are they merely aspects created for a fictional work and have no relationship to yourself or people you know i.e. do they represent something within all of us, or are they a clear perversion/diversion of the scope of human capacities of emotion?
Following from http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/
Essay
(Fiction):
I.
You find yourself in front of seven identical doors. A voice from
above tells you:
“These
seven doors lead to seven places:
Narnia,
Neverland, Wonderland, Hogwarts, Camelot, Middle Earth, and
Westeros.”
Which
door do you go through?
Why
that door? What happens?
II.
Fairy Tale Therapy:
Think
of a fairy tale character who experiences something traumatic. Years
later, have that character discuss the traumatic events of their
fairy tale with their therapist, explaining how it changed their life
and perception of reality.
III.
What if... Shakespeare lived now... and was in the army...
Story
(Fiction):
- Tell this story: “It's not wise to let someone like that know your name.”
- What would you do differently if you got to do yesterday over again? or What would you do differently if you got to do last week over again?
- He pointed me toward the opening in the tree. “I'm sure you'll be pleased. It's surprisingly large once you're inside.” Finish this story.
- She gasped with excitement and shouted over the noise of the helicopter: “The islands in the sky are real!” Finish this story.
- Retell the story of a Disney movie with one change: The Princess is now a hipster.
- Tell this story: There were fourteen potions on the shelf. Their labels were all missing. She knew one of them was what she needed. She frantically glanced back over her shoulder. There wasn't enough time to figure out which was which. She grabbed the closest one and chugged it, hoping desperately she'd picked the right potion...
Make sure you establish the situation, introduce a narrator, and organize the story in a way that unfolds naturally while using dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events. Provide a sense of closure at the end.
Common Core: Writing Anchor Standard 3: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
- Tell this story: She was sure this was where he had disappeared.
- Tell this story: As their ship pulled up beside the island, they could clearly see that it was inhabited.
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