Creative Pursuits

You have a choice of two tasks for today's blog:

Your first option is to work on descriptive writing, specifically using as much imagery as possible. First, you must find a picture on the internet. Find something that you can translate into words (something with movement or colour or emotion) and then describe it in AS MUCH DETAIL as you can. Don't just describe what you see. Fill in the gaps and add tastes, sounds, and textures. Imagine that the reader does not have the picture in front of them, and yet you must make them feel as if they are in that photo. When you are finished, please look at at least 2 other classmates' blogs, and comment on them. See the link in the sidebar (Blog example: Photo Description) for an example of an excellent blog post on this topic.

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Your second option is to create a random piece of creative writing. Below are 12 options that you may choose to write on:

1. Write a story that includes the line “behind him/her the noise escalates”
2. List 10 simple pleasures. Describe one of them in detail.
3. Think of the ten worst things to say to a person who has just been dumped. Then write a paragraph describing the scene where you talk to that person.
4. Imagine your life is now a book. Write the blurb that people would read on the back cover.
5. Write about what you would cook for an enemy.
6. Write a fictional scary encounter with your hairdresser or barber.
7. Write about how you felt when you discovered you were lied to.
8. If you could invent something to help mankind, what would it be?
9. Expand on the phrase “a galaxy of longing”
10. Write a story about a town that ran out of its sugar supply.
11. List 10 things that you plan to do/accomplish in your life. Describe one of them in detail.
12. If your house was about to burn down describe the 5 things you would grab before you left and explain why.