writing activity
— Go to a safe place outdoors, sit somewhere, and close your eyes. Spend several minutes listening for all the sounds you can hear, and pay close attention to what you...
— Write a story about you, but in a parallel universe where you had a different life. What would happen if you went to a different school, had different parents, or...
— Use J.M.W. Turner’s painting The Banks of the Loire as a starting point for a stream of consciousness piece. You can write a stream of consciousness piece about the painting...
— Come up with an annoying habit and write about a world where this is a good thing! Maybe you don’t like it when people pick their noses. Why not write...
— Choose one of these proverbs, and write a story in which the opposite is true: “A stitch in time saves nine” “The early bird catches the worm” “A problem shared...
— Write a story as if you can’t see. Describe the characters and their surroundings using every sense other than sight.
— ‘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...
— 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...
— An update from our thirty-seventh Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday March 20, plus some of the output published below This week Stone Soup Contributor Madeline...
— Make up a fictional government or country. If you were in charge, how would you want to run things?