Would assassination or civil war ever be a justifiable response to rule by tyranny? What would you do if the leader of your country became a vicious tyrant? Respond with a short story or narrative essay.
Tag: short story
Short Story Mask
Write a short story that features a character wearing a physical mask.
Vandals
Write a modern short story in which your protagonist discovers they are a rare descendant of the Vandals.
Suffering Makes You Stronger
Write a short story to test the claim that suffering makes you stronger.
Wordle: Decisions
Search the net for a few quotes about decisions. Recall these focus questions to help you in your search.
Collect a handful of phrases that give you pause to think. Avoid anonymous quotes, note the author. (Keep the unharmed list safe in your notes somewhere.)
Go to wordle.net (on Chromebooks try tagul clouds while logged in with a google account) and and blast one, or some, or a whole pile into your own “wordle”. Try several attempts till you have something rich in thought, an inspiration to a deep thinker like yourself.
When you have a “wordle” you like, take a screen capture of it (Mac: command+shift+4 or Windows: Print Screen key) and upload the “png” to your blog and ….
Write a creative narrative (a short short story of about 500 words) that develops an idea about decisions inspired from your “wordle“.
Warning: the ideas you spawn from generators like these should be used with caution, seriously.
Story Idea Generator (tv tropes)
Wordle: The Human Condition
Search the net for a few quotes about the human condition. Review these focus questions to help you in your search.
Collect a handful of phrases that give you pause to think. Avoid anonymous quotes, note the author. (Keep the unharmed list safe in your notes somewhere.)
Go to wordle.net (on Chromebooks try tagul clouds while logged in with a google account) and and blast one, or some, or a whole pile into your own “wordle”. Try several attempts till you have something rich in thought, an inspiration to a deep thinker like yourself.
When you have a “wordle” you like, take a screen capture of it (Mac: command+shift+4 or Windows: Print Screen key) and upload the “png” to your blog and ….
Write a creative narrative (a short short story of about 500-1000 words) that develops an idea about the human condition inspired from your “wordle“.
Warning: These example short short stories from the net are certainly not inspired by this activity, but they are playful in form and have a certain lexical density.
Warning: the ideas you spawn from generators like these should be used with caution, seriously.
Story Idea Generator (tv tropes)