Transcript Creative Writing

Creative Writing
Journals for Week 3
Hutchinson
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 Imagine that you have borrowed (borrowed?) a car and have
been involved in a fender bender. Write an explanation for the
police report.
 Then, write a monologue (a speech for one voice) explaining
the accident to the friend (parent?) whose car you borrowed.
 Then, write a letter telling about it to a friend who thinks you
are truly cool.
 NOTE that you are writing three separate things for this
entry.
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 Pick a story from today’s newspaper about an outrageous or
terrible event. Cut it out and tape it into your notebook.
 Then, write a paragraph about it from the tone of an official
who considers it politically necessary, a Sunday school teacher
explaining it as God’s plan, or a social scientist analyzing it for
current trends. (You are writing three paragraphs in all.)
 Then, write a paragraph about a trivial matter (dividing a
cookie, breaking a fingernail, the coffee being too hot or
something similar) in a tone of outrage.
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 Write about a situation in which you were badly stressed.
But write about it in the first person from the point of
view of someone else who was present, the point of view
of someone who observed you.
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 Write from the point of view of anything not human—an
insect, an android, a potato, a belly button or anything
else. Try to invent and develop a diction (word choice
that matches your chosen voice) that represents the frame
of reference of this thing. For instance, if you are writing
from the point of view of a shoe, it is likely to have
extensive knowledge of and opinions about flooring, but
a limited concept of the sky or human heads.
 You are to use first person point of view.
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Choose a different topic from the one you chose for the last
two weeks.
Make use of these prompts or trigger lines for easy free-writes.
Begin writing and keep writing. Anything at all. Whatever the
prompt suggests. Keep going. A little bit more.
 This journal is…
 My mother used to have…
 There was something about the way he…
 The house we lived in…
 In this dream I was…
 She got out of the car…
 The first thing I want in the morning…