Happy Thursday!
As requested, today will be a sort of "extra practice" day! Below, you will find three different writing prompts; you will also find a list of some of the elements of Creative Writing that we have discussed up to this point. Your job is to pick one of the three prompts to work with. Before you start writing, pick one of the elements listed (an element which you know you need to practice more). As you are writing your prompt, focus on developing your selected element more than the others.
You will have a set amount of time to write this prompt, and then you will randomly select a partner. You will switch your prompt with your partner. After having read your prompt, your partner will guess which element you were working with. They will give suggestions for how you can strengthen your writing, and they will tell you what you already do well using the comment function on Google Docs.
If we get time after that, we will begin to discussing plot layers.
The prompts:
1. You're digging in your garden and you find a fist-sized nugget of gold...
2. A kid comes out of the bathroom with a long strand of toilet paper dangling from his or her waistband...
3. A man is sitting on a park bench reading a newspaper.....
The elements to choose from:
-Figurative language and/or Sensory Details(remember, there are more options than similes and metaphors...check your old notes for the other options)
-Voice (You get to pick what kind of voice you want to use--think outside the box)
-Point of View (Again, you get to pick which point of view you want to use)
