Love and the Weather
Have you ever noticed how many songs use weather in their titles or in their lyrics? Often, this is a metaphor for a relationship or circumstance. Write your own song using the weather.
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Proof of Alien Life Beyond Earth
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Famed physicist Stephen Hawking and others launched a $100 million program called Breakthrough Listen in their search for alien life beyond Earth. The search will begin with the one million stars closest to us in the Milky Way Galaxy and then expand into neighboring galaxies. “We believe that life arose spontaneously on…
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Story: This Tool Is Powerful!
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Do you want to influence your readers? Do you want to grab their hearts? Use the power of story. There are two kinds of stories: the true ones and the fictional ones. People have been using both kinds forever, and so can you.
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How Will You Get Your Message Out?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS You learn important skills in essay writing that you can apply to other forms of writing, but are essays always the best way to communicate ideas to others? When Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wanted to save a piece of American history in 1830, what did he do? Did he write his senator?…
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What Are You Waiting For?
Former US presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson corresponded almost daily, and they were waiting for something important to happen. They wanted to live to see the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. What are you waiting for in your life?
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How to Complain Constructively
What can you do when your food order is incorrect or your new purchase falls apart? Complain! Learn how to complain constructively with this writing prompt for you and your children.
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You and the Jurassic World
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Many exciting stories have come from scientific ponderings. Take, for instance, Frankenstein. It was written by Mary Shelley while the scientific world debated the idea of reanimation. Could something dead, a frog, perhaps, be reanimated by electricity? And if a frog could be brought back to life, what about a human? And…
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Storywriting: Put Your Character into Hot Water, Part 2
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS In a recent tutorial, you practiced plunging your character into hot water with two powerful methods many writers use. You can find that prompt here.This week you’ll examine three more methods of getting your main character deep into a story. As Stanley Elkin reveals, “I would never write about someone who is…
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Storywriting: Put Your Character into Hot Water, Part 1
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS You have an idea for a story but don’t know how to get it going. Or you would like to write a story but are out of ideas. When you write a story, you have to throw a lot of things at your main character, things he or she would rather not…
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What Famous Person Would You Like to Interact With?
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS So you’re driving your taxi, and someone hails you from the sidewalk. In comes a man you eventually recognize, and you get so excited that you shout a phrase from one of his movies to him. He laughs and joins in the fun. You drop him off, but that is not the…
