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— Write a story as if you can’t see. Describe the characters and their surroundings using every sense other than sight.
— I have always been a big fan of Kate Milford’s books, and so when I heard she had a new book coming out I very quickly knew I would want...
— Make up at least five terrible book titles (they don’t have to make sense!) and write a story based on the most ridiculous one. Submit your entries here.
— Look at this painting: Promenade des Enfants (Children’s Walk) by Timoléon Lobrichon (1831-1914). Write a poem about it, in a style that reflects your initial response when you first saw...
— ‘Tom Green,’ a story by 10-year-old Zahra Batteh, is a classic redemption tale. Tom Green, a horrible, spoiled, lazy young man loses all his money and privilege, and through a series...
— Draw your dream home! Thanks to Stone Soup ’20—21 Intern Emily Fleck for this week’s prompt!
— Write a story that focuses primarily on a dialogue between two or more of the objects in the room in which you’re writing. Think about what a day in the...
— Visit the same place—precisely the same location—multiple times a day, or at the same time every day for a week. Document what you see through photography, other art forms, or...
— Challenge yourself to make a self-portrait every day this week, using a different medium each time (pencil, paint, pastel, ketchup…). Sometimes you might just do it in 5 minutes; other...
— Make up a fictional government or country. If you were in charge, how would you want to run things?