7 steps to creativity - how to have ideas. A guest post by Simon Townley of WriteMindset As a writer, having ideas is one of the most important parts of your craft.
But often it seems like one of the most difficult and challenging parts of the whole process. 80 Journal Writing Prompts. Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing - Stepcase Lifeh. The Literacy Shed - The Literacy Shed Home.
Writer’s Digest - Writing Prompts. Write a scene that includes a character speaking a different language, speaking in a thick accent, or otherwise speaking in a way that is unintelligibe to the other characters.
(Note: You don't necessarily need to know the language the character is speaking—be creative with it!) Describe a character's reaction to something without explaining what it is. See if your fellow prompt responders can guess what it is. Write a story or a scene about one character playing a prank on another. Describe the scene from both characters' points of view. Writing Prompt: Write a story that involves confusion over homonyms (words that have the same spelling but different meanings) or homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently). For World Storytelling Day, share the best story you've ever heard or told by word of mouth, or have a fictional character recount their favorite story. Salinger's New York. Produced by Zena Koo Magnum In Motion Salinger's New York Interactive Essay site map | build your own Slate | the fray | about us | contact us | searchfeedback | help | advertise | newsletters | mobile | make Slate your homepage © Copyright 2010 Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive Co.
LLCUser Agreement and Privacy Policy | All rights reserved. Web English Teacher. William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" ... from 60second Recap® "Hamlet" SYMBOLS. Video SparkNotes: Shakespeare's Hamlet Summary. Why You Should Read Hamlet. "Hamlet" MOTIFS. Dystopia. Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard. Voices in Time I want to share with you something I’ve learned.
I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the blackboard]. This is the G-I axis: good fortune-ill fortune. Death and terrible poverty, sickness down here—great prosperity, wonderful health up there. Your average state of affairs here in the middle [points to bottom, top, and middle of line respectively]. This is the B-E axis. Now let me give you a marketing tip. Another is called “Boy Meets Girl,” but this needn’t be about a boy meeting a girl [begins drawing line B].
Now, I don’t mean to intimidate you, but after being a chemist as an undergraduate at Cornell, after the war I went to the University of Chicago and studied anthropology, and eventually I took a masters degree in that field. One of the most popular stories ever told starts down here [begins line C below B-E axis]. Dystopian Writing Prompts. List of books banned by governments. Wikipedia list article A display of formerly banned books at a US library In many territories, distribution, promotion, or certain translations of the Bible have historically been prohibited or impeded.
See Censorship of the Bible.[1] Many countries throughout the world have their own methods of restricting access to books, although the prohibitions vary strikingly from one country to another: hate speech, for example, is prohibited in a number of countries, such as Sweden, though the same books may be legal in the United States or United Kingdom, where the only prohibition is on child pornography. [citation needed] Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States.
Afghanistan[edit] Albania[edit] Argentina[edit] Australia[edit] Austria[edit] Bangladesh[edit] A short memoir of 9/11 « The Invisible Man. (Originally sent in an email to friends and family, 9/11/02) Friends, I think it would be nice to memorialize the events of September 11, by sharing our personal experiences.
Here’s mine. I was on the subway going to work. I live at 112th Street, and my office is on 22nd Street, so I only use one subway, the #1, going from the 110th Street Station to the 23rd Street Station. On this particular day, the subway stopped at Times Square (42nd Street) and an announcement was made, no downtown service. I walked out of the station and started down Seventh Avenue. When I reached 22nd Street, I turned east (my building is between Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue). How and Why We Read: Crash Course English Literature #1. Writing prompts. Language, Voice, and Holden Caulfield: The Catcher in the Rye Part 1. Holden, JD, and the Red Cap- The Catcher in the Rye Part 2: Crash Course English Literature #7. Before I Got My Eye Put Out - Poetry: Crash Course English Lit #8.