“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ― Terry Pratchett

Poem Number One (An Ode to the Road):

• I wanted to create a really peaceful poem based on the image below right, which really inspired me when I came across it on Pinterest
• Based on Setting
• One Page
• I think it is meant to be dark and mysterious but to me, it feels peaceful and full of happiness. I want to write an Ode poem for this photo, as it seems like it fits and I have always wanted to write one. “An Ode to the Road” I will name it.

 

Poem Number Two (No):

• Another poem based on an image I found, for me it’s really nice to be inspired by images rather than anything else, I get more ideas by looking at an image, song or apiece of writing.
• POV Based
• One Page
• Based on the image with the glowing ‘No’. I thought opposite to my first poem I can write a more mysterious and almost sad poem rather than a happy, joyful poem and have contrasting works.
• I am also inspired by the “No Means No” consent protests, signs, etc.
• For this poem, I will choose Elegy as my form of poetry, because it is very dramatic, and by definition is ‘a poem of serious reflection’. Which is what I want my poem to be.

 

 

 

“You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.”― Jodi Picoult

Story One (Fade);

• 5 Pages
• Character
• I was inspired by kids movies I watched when I was younger, which the kids always had imaginary friends. When I was little I always wished I had one but I don’t think I understood the concept all that well, and it didn’t occur to me that I had to create one in my mind and that they are not real animals or people. I guess that is what being a kid is about!
• My story will be based on a young girl and her imaginary friend, but the imaginary friend is fading away as the girls birthday approaches and she is about to become a teen.
• This inspired me to use the character unit because I think it will include a lot of descriptive words and phrases to portray the imaginary friend and young girls lives and what they look like to each other and in reality

Story Two (The Coffee Shop in The Woods): 

• Based off of setting unit.
• 5 Pages
• I will be writing about a coffee house in the woods.
• It will have some fantasy aspects but overall be very realistic not a lot of magic included.
• I was inspired to write this by just researching intriguing topics, places for a set and I decided to take two very different settings and put them together, this will call for lots of great descriptions and detail
• (http://howtowriteshop.loridevoti.com/2017/02/creative-writing-prompts-start-with-a-setting/)