Endings are hard. Try thinking about endings as punctuation: Period: it’s all neatly tied up and finished. Question mark: a few things are left open – whatever will happen next? Exclamation point – no one expected that, SURPRISE!!!!! Take a look at one of the stories you have written recently–or, you can do this as a collaborative exercise using someone else’s story (swap with a friend or a sibling, or choose one from Stone Soup). What kind of ending does it have? Can you try rewriting the ending in one of the other styles? Which one works best?
Activities
Daily Creativity #39: Write a Poem Inspired by a Breugel Painting
Study this painting for at least five minutes (set a timer!), zooming in to get a better look and taking notes on what you notice. Then write a 16-line poem about it. The artwork we are referring you to for this exercise is called The Procession to Calvary, painted by Pieter Breugel the Elder in 1564. It measures 124 cm × 170 cm (49 in × 67 in) and is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Daily Creativity #38: Invent a New Technology
Technology is great. But what other incredible things do you wish it could do? Let your imagination roam free and write a story about a world where your amazing invention is as normal as a toaster or a mobile phone.
