One of my favourite forms of writing exercise/brainstorming for ideas activity is Ernest Hemingway's six word story idea. His most famous comment for this was "For Sale: One pair baby shoes". My suggestion to start off with would be "He refused to kill a dragon".
So what is the point of writing exercises? They help you discover you can produce fiction, and quickly. One great thing is nobody expects what you produce in class to be perfect, the whole idea is just to create and get that down on paper.
And you can use the six word story idea to trigger ideas for longer short stories, novels etc.
Some six word story ideas based on a fairytale world could include:-
Hopefully those will generate some story ideas.
So what is the point of writing exercises? They help you discover you can produce fiction, and quickly. One great thing is nobody expects what you produce in class to be perfect, the whole idea is just to create and get that down on paper.
And you can use the six word story idea to trigger ideas for longer short stories, novels etc.
Some six word story ideas based on a fairytale world could include:-
- Jenny didn't need her wand malfunctioning.
- Fairy godmothers have gone on strike.
- The glass slipper broke on touch.
- Evil is what you make it.
Hopefully those will generate some story ideas.
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