Writing Workshop Prompts
If you try any of these prompts, drop your responses in the comments! Looking forward to it !
jan18
Weekend Writers Workshop: Show Don’t Tell
Exercise 1: Warmup!
6 word story
Exercise 2: Music, instrumentals specifically, has a way of showing and not telling! Use these 2 songs to respond to these to prompts They provide different feelings and pacing. Use that to your advantage!
Song: Pelos by Misrili Ahmet
https://open.spotify.com/track/28g2DsAiBRhFmF5nyonBWa?si=KZJR5FerS5CNIPlv0PFHEw
Prompt: “the Clock Strikes 12…” The percussion of this song is fast pace! can you keep up? What’s happening as the clock strikes 12?
Song:
Prompt: Knives! Knives are a special tool in that it can be used both as a weapon and a tool to potentially cut an apple in half to share. whether it be to cook, to kill, to protect, or to cut, write about Knives! write in your own style be a poem or short story.
feb15
Weekend Writers Workshop: Personification.
exercise 1:
read cloud and cactus from everythingnmo.com
topic: an unlikely love story:
group write. pass a piece of paper. write a love story together. line for line or paragraph for paragraph.
each person choose an object:
for example: light & shadow, cactus & cloud
chair & floor.
hat & flower.
use your personalized writing styles to write these. be it poetry, short story, historical political text etc. bring your object and the other persons object to life using personification, metaphors, similies etc.
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exercise 2.
write a letter to your future self.
update on where you are right now? advice for future you? affirmations? encouragement? etc.