Do you believe in magic? Try this writing prompt
Writing is usually a lonely task, but when we do it in a supportive community, something enchanting happens. We had a magical time on Saturday at the Shore Thing Writing Getaway at the beautiful Dante Hall Theater in Atlantic City. Dozens of poems, mountains of stories, oceans of nonfiction and at least one chapter from a novel were conjured into existence.
In case you couldn’t be there with us, here’s one of the prompts we wrote to. Try this at home, and, abracadabra, we hope we’ll see you next time.
Magical Writing Prompt
Poetry:
Include a bird or a fish in a poem that tries to reveal or explain something magical.
Include a bird or a fish in a poem that tries to reveal or explain something magical.
Fiction:
Write a story in which something magical is accepted as normal.
Nonfiction/Memoir:
Write about something you believed that turned out to be false.
Requirements for all:
1. Begin your first draft with a subordinating conjunction.*
2. Have something that’s not supposed to fly, fly.
3. Tell a secret, tell a lie and never tell anyone which is which.
Surprise yourself!
*after, although, as, if, because, since, unless…as if, as though, before, even if, even though, if
only, in order that, now that, once, rather than, so that, than, that, though, till, until, when,
whenever, where, whereas, wherever, while, why.
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