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  • The Six Word Memoir

  • Hemingway was supposedly challenged to tell his life story in six words. He came up with "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." Write your own six word memoirs!
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    • Giving Life to the Inanimate

    • Try and relate a scene through the perspective of an object in the room. You don't need to give the object life, but center the story around the object.
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    • Bedtime Story

    • Let your imagination run wild. Try and tell someone a bedtime story as they lay ready to sleep. Write the story down. If you don't have someone to tell a bedtime story, pretend you do!
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    • Reasoning Behind Dreams

    • Think about a dream you had recently. Try and write a piece in which you find the story behind an aspect of your dreams, or what might have inspired you to dream something that you did.
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