WriteWell Class Page

Video about writing a haiku each day and an article about his journey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O72QqfwYwho&authuser=0
https://ideas.ted.com/i-wrote-a-haiku-every-day-for-a-week-heres-what-i-learned/

Challenge for next class:
- write a haiku each day.
- find a copy of a favorite poem to share with the group.
- write a parallel poem based on this favorite poem (parallel poem= original poem that uses the same line structures as another poem, but focuses on a completely different topic.)

Example of a parallel poem:
If you don't have a favorite poem, some poets to google: Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, or use one of the psalms. Or you may use the poem I'm going to use by William Carlos Williams:

This Is Just to Say

by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

Challenge:

Keep a gratitude journal for a few days this week.

And/or respond to one of the journal prompts.

Choose one of the following prompts or story starters or come up with an idea of your own, and write a short story.

1.Write about someone who gets stuck in their workplace during a blizzard and decides to explore rooms they aren’t normally allowed in.

2.Write about someone who gets an inheritance from a relative they’ve never heard of, but they’ll need to do something completely outside their comfort zone in order to collect it.

3.Write about someone who’s so obsessed with a goal that it leads to the destruction of their closest relationship.

4.Write an argument where a husband or wife complains of a physical ailment, but their spouse refuses to believe it’s real.

5.Have your character write a funny to-do list about the steps to get a boyfriend or girlfriend.

6.Write about someone telling their family they won’t be continuing the long-standing family business.

7.Write a space adventure story that features a visit to an alien marketplace.

8.Write a romance where the characters pretend to be dating each other in order to win a reality show.

9.Write a thriller about someone who witnesses a murder… except there’s no evidence that a murder took place.

10.Have a couple fight while playing a board game. Have the fight be about something related to the board game: fighting about money, have them play monopoly. Fighting about politics, let them play chess.