writing
— Create a fictional politician, and write them a “stump speech.” What policies do they support? What is their personality like?
— Write a story about the person in your life who annoys you the most and why.
— Create a new idiom or metaphor, and write a conversation containing it.
— Pretend you’re explaining COVID-19 to people in the distant past, and write a scene around this. To submit to this month’s Flash Contest, click here.
— Write about an academic fail, such as flunking a test, and a character’s recovery from it.
— Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935).
— Write a creation story for a fictional world you create. This could be the start of a story about this world, or it could be a stand-alone story. To submit...
— Write about a Zoom problem (or other tech disaster) and the aftermath.
— An update from the twenty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday November 13 To continue with students’ workshop requests, this week we revisited...
— Write a conversation on text messages or social media. This could be about an IRL concern or something distinctly online: the point is to experiment with an online format.