Idea Soup

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What makes you beautiful?

Everything about you.

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Character Make-Up

Here’s a great activity that is great to play with a writing group. It is a mix between a Mad Lib and just a way to create a pretty awesome character. So here’s how it works:

Each partner takes a few minutes to write down as many questions they can think of about a character, such as when they were born, what their favorite color is, what their best friend’s name is ect. 

Next the partners (one at a time) answer the questions- but here’s the thing- instead of asking the exact question, like when was she born, you would ask for a four digit number or something else creative.

Repeat with all of the questions and then share, if you are anything like me you will come up with some pretty crazy characters.

So get writing and remember to be creative and think outside of the box!

I was just reading a friend’s blog and saw that she had done an exercise from a writing book that we have read. After I read this I just instantly had the urge to go write one of my own, and to tell you about my new discovery.

This is a poem exercise but is great to just get your ideas flowing as well. You decide what you will do each year of your life by saying

When I’m 16, I’ll…

When I’m 17, I’ll…

When I’m 18, I’ll…

ect. In order to create a poem. You can start and end at any age you would like!

Here’s and example:

Freedom

When I’m 16 I’ll get my drivers license.

When I’m 17 I’ll wish I was 18 sooner.

When I’m 18 I’ll discover a world without parental consent forms.

When I’m 19 I’ll go off to College.

When I’m 20 I’ll be homesick and drive home for the holidays. 

When I’m 21 I’ll brake free from all the chains that legally bind me.

When I’m 22 I’ll realize what freedom is and I’ll get the hang of it!

Now get writing! And remember to have fun and enjoy yourself, I sure did!

I once read a book on writing, I learned a lot from that book.

Most importantly I learned to save your writing, for at least 15 years.

This may seem like a long time, and it is, but when I look back on the writing I did in fourth grade, the novel I attempted to write, I see exactly how naive I was.

And, at the same time, there is an entire treasure trove of ideas, ones that have been germinating in my head just waiting to sprout into a story, but needing to be uncovered.

And, when I reread my work from second grade, that piece about time traveling or I try to decipher the picture book about the Lost Dog Who Came Home from kindergarten, it is as if I am tilling the fields, bringing all of those old, nutrient rich ideas to the top and letting those old exhausted ones rest, at least until next year!