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Ashley, what a great idea! I think I am going to have my kids who I am homeschooling try some of these activities. They are teens, so this should be fun for them.
woah, those are so fun! i could spend the rest of several lives specualting and writing those stories!
Fun! When are you going to post the next exercise?
Exercise #1
Pick one of the options below and use it as the beginning of a story. You can revise the sentences a little or a lot to make them work better for you. Feel free to change the names and to turn boys into girls or vice versa. Write for at least twenty minutes.
*I have one green eye and one brown eye. The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.
*The ghost was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich.
*"Be nice," my father said. "After all, he's your brother."
*I am the most famous twelve year old in the United States.
*Jason had never felt so foolish before, and he hoped he'd never feel so foolish again.
*If somebody didn't do something soon, they were going to have a catastrophe on their hands.
*Alison was the runt of the famil, born small and ill-favored, and by the time she was thirteen, she was still small and ill-favored.
*It was a witchy house: the low-slung roof; that quiet gray paint; those squinting, shuttered windows; and the empty porch rocker that rocked, rocked rocked day and night.
*The first time I saw Stephen, he painted a hex sign on my right arm, and I couldn't move my fingers for three hours.
*Ms. Fleming's wig had gone missing.
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