Prompts for the week of May 17th, 2012
Prompt
Write a short story using one of the following prompts. Concentrate on the development of your character.
The perfect life
How many times have I said
Where have all the flowers gone?
FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Bedpost, margarine, financial, develop, cat
HAVE FUN!
Writing Prompts
Five Words – create, east, novel, express, share
Have Fun!
Prompts for the week of May 10th, 2012
Prompt
This will be the final prompt for our voices and tenses. This week we will use the omniscient voice ( the all knowing voice). As a general rule it is done in present tense because the omniscient is seeing and describing things as they happen. However that is not always the case. Play with it and tell us what the omniscient is seeing or has seen in your story. Happy writing!!
FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Coliseum, panoramic, mediocre, provide, roach
HAVE FUN!
Prompts for the week of May 3rd, 2012
Prompt
We will continue to work on our voices and our tenses. Write something this week using the third person (the he/she voice). Write it using both the past and present tenses. Practice makes perfect, happy writing!!
FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Elastic, rendition, assistance, mulberry, penguin
HAVE FUN!
Writing Prompts:
1. Write about something you really dislike. Here is your chance to go for the jugular. Let your emotions flow into your writing.
2. Recount a somewhat serious anecdote – real or a fictional one – in the form of a joke. Use the rhythms and the voice you use when telling a joke, such as premise, setup and punch line.
3. You’re at lunch when your Smartphone buzzes with an e-mail from your boss: “Don’t forget, we have a meeting in 10 minutes.” Of course you did forget, so you rush out of the restaurant and attempt to make it before it starts. But a crazy chain of events stops you from getting back in time for the meeting.
4. You’ve just moved into a new house and are fixing it up. In the process of painting you find an odd crack in the wall. As you explore further, you find out it’s a secret passageway—and you have no idea where it leads. You decide to grab a flashlight and go exploring.
5. Invent a character that has two personality traits that are completely incompatible, that don’t fit together at all. For example: this character is incredibly messy and is also a total perfectionist. Or: this character is a pacifist and also has a really explosive temper. Or: this character believes in strict, traditional family values but is promiscuous by nature. You decide. Then think of a situation in which these two sides of your character would be in direct conflict with each other. Write the story.
Five Words:
plant, exchange, wreath, river city, stripes
The Amelia Writer’s Group will meet again on Tuesday, April 24th at 6:00 p.m. All adult writers are welcome.
Try the following prompts!
Writing Prompts
1. Write about your family, making them the very first family, living in a cave, killing the occasional mastodon. How long could your family survive? Describe in detail your surroundings, what life is like. Have fun with this one.
2. Write a scene in which a character professes feelings of guilt but clearly does not feel that way. Use action, gesture and voice to signal her true feelings.
3. Write a scene as observed by a character on the fringe of the action. If you want choose an event from another prompt or writing.
4. Write a story based on a myth or a fairy tale, setting it in contemporary times.
5. Write an excuse for not working today.
Five Words – Write a short story/paragraph. The following five words must appear in your story – Great value, idea, cookie, research, container
Have fun with these.
Prompts for the week of April 12, 2012
PROMPT
I find the two most confusing things in writing are the voices, (first person, second person, third person and omniscient) and the tenses, (present and past and future). Because some of us are writing longer more in depth pieces, we need to be sure we understand the use of the voices and the tenses so that our writings will flow and make sense to the reader. So let’s practice:
Write short paragraphs using all four voices and all three tenses.
First person: the “I” voice Present tense: happening now
Second person: the “you” voice Past tense: happened in the past
Third person: the “he/ she” voice Future tense: will happen in the future.
Omniscient: the “all knowing” voice
FIVE WORDS
Create a short story using these five words:
Sanity, critical, dialogue, eliminate, rat
HAVE FUN!
Prompts for the week of April 5, 2012
Think “SPRING”
Do you have any spring time traditions?
Let the nice weather inspire a poem.
Can you describe a springtime sky?
5 WORDS
Use these 5 words to create a short story. The only rule, you must use all 5 words!!!
HERD
GOD
ALABASTER
WINDY
EGRET
It happened during a conversation with a library patron. We were talking about her love of writing, and some of the things she has written about, when she said “I wonder if a writers’ group would do well in New Richmond?” Her question got us brainstorming to find a way to try it.
At the time, Clermont County Public Library already had one very successful writers’ group, at the Williamsburg Branch Library. We visited them, to see just what went on in a writers’ group, anyway. On April 18, 2011, we had our inaugural meeting of the River City Writers’ Group. I’m pleased to say that they’ve been meeting on the 1st and 3rd Monday’s of each month, for the past year. They have shared short stories, memoirs, novels, writing prompts, and poetry. For the past few months, poetry has been the focus, and several even participated in a Brown County Poetry Reading.
Writing groups have become so successful that five Clermont County Public Library branches now offer creative writing groups. Check our calendar to find a writing group near you.
Prompts for the week of March 22, 2012
Perspective
1. Write a story from the perspective of a soldier (male or female) in Iraq.
2. Write a story from the perspective of a lottery winner.
3. Write a story from the perspective of a juror in a murder trial.
4. Write a story from the perspective of a genius looking for a suitable girlfriend(boyfriend)
5. Write a story about anything from the perspective of the opposite gender.
Five Words (phrases)
1. “If that didn’t take the cake!”
2. “Gag me with a spoon!”
3. “Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
4. One more common phrase that you use all the time.
5. A phrase that, when you hear it, it just gets on your last nerve.