Posted by lightgrade7 on 22nd January 2011
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the image that is at the link below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
Click here to view the lithograph “Belvedere” by M.C. Escher. (Zoom in and look at it carefully, and you will notice some very strange things! You can read about why it is an impossible figure at this link.)
The contest will end on Friday, March 4, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 5th November 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the image that is at the link below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
Click here to view the painting The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali.
The contest will end on Friday, Dec. 3, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 9th October 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the prompt below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, Oct. 22, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
Prompt: Go to this link and generate your own Serendipitous Simile. You will see more directions on the site, but basically you will click two buttons to generate a simile, and then you will write a short piece based on that. When I clicked it, the site generated the simile in the picture below: “Her hate is like a birdcage.”
(By the way, there are a lot of other fun creative writing generators on the site, such as “Serendipitous Cartoon Plots,” “Serendipitous Oxymorons,” “Serendipitous Story Plots,” and more.)
Source: http://www.writingfix.com/right_brain.htm
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 26th September 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the prompt below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, Oct. 8, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
PROMPTS (CHOOSE ONE):
- Write a poem or paragraph from the point of view of a spoon inside the dishwasher.
- Write a poem or paragraph from the point of view of a strand of hair.
- Write a poem or paragraph from the point of view of a branch with a bird perched on it.
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 27th February 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the prompt below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, March 12, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
PROMPT: Write a Zen story, or something that is inspired by a Zen story. See the link to read more Zen stories like the ones we read in class.
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 5th February 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the prompt below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, February 26, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
PROMPT: Write from the point of view of the only tree left standing in the forest. (This prompt was borrowed from creativewritingprompts.com.)
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 23rd January 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the image below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, February 5, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
Image source: http://www.artchive.com/
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 9th January 2010
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the prompt below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, January 22, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
Prompt: This week’s contest is a little different. Using your visual from your New Orleans jazz metaphor (from music) or your cell analogy project (from science), write a metaphor poem or explanatory paragraph. The winners will be featured in Pencil Point, Bristow’s school magazine that showcases student writing! (I have the jazz metaphors, and the cell analogy projects are on bulletin boards.) Have fun!
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 12th December 2009
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the prompt below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, January 8, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
PROMPT: Put an athlete, artist, and fitness instructor in a museum. Add in a broken window and a crooked painting. One of the three panics. Write out the scene. (Prompt borrowed from creativewritingprompts.com.)
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 22nd November 2009
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the image below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, December 11, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
Image source: http://www.artchive.com/
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Posted by lightgrade7 on 5th November 2009
Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the image below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
I’ll post a winner after the contest deadline, but don’t worry too much about who wins. Just be creative, surprise us, and have fun!
The contest will end on Friday, November 20, at 3:00 p.m.
Enter by clicking on “Comments.” I will be moderating the comments, and you won’t see them until after the contest has closed.
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Who’s got some creativity to write something intriguing, funny, or otherwise delightful based on your response to the image that is at the link below? Enter the contest by writing a short piece of fiction or non-fiction (poetry or a paragraph). Please make your piece in the range of up to 200 words or so, and proofread it carefully for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
