Metaphors: Writing is ....
This is one of the slightly longer structured exercises.
Collect random objects from garage, loft, shed, charity shop. eg buttons, stones, shells, toys, mugs, trinkets, ashtrays, cotton reels, coins, string, driftwood, feathers, straps, keys, scarves, gloves, bike lights, old mobile phones ...
Let writers choose any one and discuss or jot down some observations about it.
Each writer should then reflect on the way their chosen object resembles writing. Then they begin a quick 5-10 minute write explaining why 'writing is a stone ...'
Here is an example written by a year 12 Creative Writing student on 29th of January 2016:
Writing is a Pebble
Writing is a small pebble, Compressed and forms through years of washing up on shore and being pulled back into the abyss of choice. It is layered, stony on the outside and yet with an entirely new composition and array of colours on the inside. What seems grey and beaten on the outside might have a lush, smooth colour on the inside. Though this is true, the pebble starts as nothing more than dust, or other little pebbles. Maybe even molten rock. The forming of this pebble begins at the throw into a sea of wonderful ideas, some undiscovered, hiding in coral reefs and shying away from the light and humanity. Species unknown to us lay inside and their footprints are imbedded into this small, grey pebble. Little segments from other pebbles taken and brushed off onto this one. So many factors, the weather, the people, the ocean deep affecting and forming into one.
Collect random objects from garage, loft, shed, charity shop. eg buttons, stones, shells, toys, mugs, trinkets, ashtrays, cotton reels, coins, string, driftwood, feathers, straps, keys, scarves, gloves, bike lights, old mobile phones ...
Let writers choose any one and discuss or jot down some observations about it.
Each writer should then reflect on the way their chosen object resembles writing. Then they begin a quick 5-10 minute write explaining why 'writing is a stone ...'
Here is an example written by a year 12 Creative Writing student on 29th of January 2016:
Writing is a Pebble
Writing is a small pebble, Compressed and forms through years of washing up on shore and being pulled back into the abyss of choice. It is layered, stony on the outside and yet with an entirely new composition and array of colours on the inside. What seems grey and beaten on the outside might have a lush, smooth colour on the inside. Though this is true, the pebble starts as nothing more than dust, or other little pebbles. Maybe even molten rock. The forming of this pebble begins at the throw into a sea of wonderful ideas, some undiscovered, hiding in coral reefs and shying away from the light and humanity. Species unknown to us lay inside and their footprints are imbedded into this small, grey pebble. Little segments from other pebbles taken and brushed off onto this one. So many factors, the weather, the people, the ocean deep affecting and forming into one.