Description is necessary to establish setting and characters, but it can sometimes be boring. One of the ways to shake description up is to use metaphor or similes. Describe a character’s physical appearance by using as many metaphors or similes as you can. What did you come up with? Were two similes too much? How [...]
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Prompt: Time Conflict
Posted in prompt, tagged conflict, prompt, scene, story, time, write, writer, writing on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Write a scene filled with conflict that takes place in present day. Then, write the same scene but in a different time period like in the Victorian age, the 50s or the future. What time period did you choose? What did you discover? How do the two scenes differ?
Prompt: Borrowing
Posted in prompt, tagged book, borrow, poem, prompt, story, writing on December 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Grab a random book and borrow the first sentance. Use that sentance in a story or as a line in a poem. How’d it turn out? Edit January 1, 2010: I used the first line from Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl (amazing young adult novel!), which is “The planet shines below us, [...]
