story writing
— ‘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...
— Stone Soup contributor and 20-21 intern Anya Geist, 14, talks with Stone Soup newcomer Shelby Miller, 11, about the inspiration she gets from her author grandfather, writing scary stories, and...
— Write a short story that begins with “Once upon a time, in a land far away…” and ends with “…and they all lived happily ever after.” This prompt is our...
— What if a misplaced letter in a word changes everything? A story about someone who wins a million dollars would be very different if they actually won a million collars;...
— Sometimes a plot turns on a mistake or a miscommunication. What if the crucial email, letter, text or phone message never arrived? It could be a disaster, or it might...
— 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?...
— More often than not, we write stories in the first person (I) or the third (she or he). Today we have a new challenge: write a short story narrated in...
— It’s April Fool’s Day! Write a story with a twist ending that will totally surprise your reader.
— Emma McKinny’s story “Windsong,” is about going to a performance of Dr. Atomic, an opera by John Adams with libretto by Peter Sellers. Her father is the lead singer. You can...
— The story by 11-year-old Nate Sheehan, “Conrad and Fate” is about prejudice based on a student’s ethnicity. This story, set in the late 1950s is about prejudice against Japanese people,...