Creative writing, H2

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Plan for today:

- What is creative writing?

- How to get into the flow of creative writing.

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What is creative writing?

"Creative writing is an expressive form of literature; one which demands you to use your own creativity, imagination and story to portray a particular message, emotion, or plot. It defies the traditional bounds of other forms of writing and is completely subjective to our own preferences and experiences."

Warm-up activity

Write down everything that comes to mind, don't think about it:

Turn what you wrote into a story, poem or another creative writing piece:

Examples of creative writing

Poem

“I wake up to the sounds

Of the silence that allows

For my mind to run around

With my ear up to the ground

I’m searching to behold

The stories that are told

When my back is to the world

That was smiling when I turned

Tell you you’re the greatest

But once you turn they hate us….” 

Did you like the poem?

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Flash fiction

To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr. Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do. He would stand upon the corner of an intersection and peer down long moonlit avenues of sidewalk in four directions, deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone, and with a final decision made, a path selected, he would stride off, sending patterns of frosty air before him like the smoke of a cigar.

Did you like the flash fiction story?

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Comic

Did you like the comic?

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Choose a theme and write a 5 sentence story. You cannot repeat a word.

Write a two-sentence answer to the following questions...

You are lost in the desert with nothing to eat but sand and tumbleweed. How do you feel?

What would your dream birthday cake taste like?

You are on the New York subway. What do you see?

Have a look at this picture. What would it feel/smell/look like?

What would it feel/smell/look like?

Have a look at this picture. What would it feel/smell/look like?

What would it feel/smell/look like?

What is your opinion on creative writing?

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Options:

- Study for the test.

Creative writing:

https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_language/Creative_writing/Story_starters_sv1855408la

- Pick a famous movie and spend 5 minutes writing a scene from it from an unusual perspective. 

- Every Christmas adults tell kids stories about Santa Claus. In this exercise you write a Christmas story from an alternative dimension.

What if every Christmas Santa didn't fly around the world delivering presents on his sleigh pulled by reindeer? What if gnomes or aliens delivered the presents? Or perhaps it was the gnomes who are trying to emulate the humans? Or some other Christmas tradition entirely that we humans have never heard of!