My teacher sent out an alert telling us that there is a writing contest coming up and that any of us who feel experimental, and want to try and write a 300-400 word story prompt set in 2168, should give it a shot. So considering the fact that I have literal buckets of homework, a job, and extra curricular activity’s, there was nothing holding me back, and I decided to give it a shot.
(This is my writing promt please leave some feedback down below if you have anything you want me to change! I would love to hear your feedback!)I feel very fondly of writing and really enjoy reading books and magazines, and so I decided to write this prompt on something I feel strongly about. The prompt was not quite long enough to achieve a proper storyline, but I wanted to write about depth and focus. I wanted to go into so much detail that the whole 400 words is about one moment. One second, and all that people can draw from it. I really enjoy toying around with the idea of what people can take from certain situations and how much people can make out of one moment, because our brains move very fast and sometimes were not quite ready to move on.
I wanted to take a subtle approach to the futuristic theme, because I am not so keen of sci-fi and futuristic books, and I wanted what I was writing about to be something I enjoyed to write. So I sort of just dismantled that part of the challenge, aside form the fact that the person who’s perspective it is told from is time traveling back for the 28th time to that exact scene in time, they are seeing the girl under the oak tree for the last time. Every time!
I feel as though this prompt went well because I decided to pour myself into detail, and I really am happy with how it turned out. I recently read French Exit, by Patrick deWitt, and I wanted my prompt to reflect some of his influence. I also used the information that I have been learning in school about hooks and bridges to compete the intro and to draw people into the story.
The challenge was put on through CBC and I would totally recommend you check it out. The deadline to enter your pieces is the 29th, so get them in fast!
Hello from Portugal,
I am a Portuguese teacher of English as a Foreign Language and an Edublogs commenter and I really enjoyed reading our entry 🙂 – clear and well-written, one can notice right away how much you love reading and writing.
I have no suggestions for your text as I am not very creative…I do like reading (basically historical fiction) and writing (basically blogging or academics stuff). Anyway, congratulations on your blog entry and the best of luck for the writing contest.
Greetings,
Teacher Alex
Hi Alex,
Thank you so much for your comment, means the world to me! Are you running the Edublog Challenge through your school in Portugal? If so I would love to check out the work by your students! Also I would love to hear about what historical fiction books you read, I think I need to get into more history!
Thanks so much
Adlih
Hi,
Thanks for your contact.
Teaching English as a Foreign Language is obviously very different from studying our mother tongue and implies further hurdles have to be overcome. It has not been an easy path to blog with students in English and even though I’ve done it in a recent past, I’m not doing it right now. In any case, if curious, have a look at http://shiningasoure.blogspot.com/.
Throughout time I’ve read many historical fiction books, mostly around WWII. For you, I would recommend Michael Morpurgo’s books such as Flamingo Boy (his most recent one, the main character being an autistic boy/character), War Horse (WWI) or any other. I also loved Once, by Morris Gleitzman.
Feel free to get back to me if you wish.
BEst wishes,
Teacher Alex
Hi Alex,
Sorry it took so long to reply, Christmas came a few days to early this year! I hope your holidays were incredible, and filled with happiness! The blog looks really interesting. It’s really cool that its like a website but anybody can add to it. It makes it more inclusive. I will definitely look into the books you recommended, Once looks like something I’d love to read! Thank you for the recommendations, it means so much to me!
I hope you have a happy new year!
Adlih
Hey Alex,
I find it amazing that you would choose to write something voluntary! But it sure sounds like you had fun! How long did it take you to write that story?
Sincerely Holly