Save the Words Activity!

Have you already saved a word from extinction? If not...

1. Go to savethewords.org

2. Pick one to three words.

3. Make a literary work that features the words you picked.

4. Submit them to writerskilldocpub@gmail.com

5. If you choose to make a work of fiction and you want it workshopped, submit it to WSWorkshops1011@yahoo.com

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Time to get to revascularize the artist's blood (even though it's hell week/month/sem/year/life)!

See ya!

WriterSkill Fiction Writing Workshop

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Check out this sem's first fiction writing workshop!
See you there!

Save the Words!

Zounds!

Fellow writers and artists, the world of literature quaeritates its members to lend their aid! Though the conception of new words support the tradition of wordsmithing, it creates an operiment which prevents us from realizing dire repercussions - pernatique (yet much needed) words being subjected to venalitious offers to extinction!

But do not panic, for we could do something! Like essomeric wizards, we will search, expose and riviate for these endangered words from all latibules and revive those that are already dead. Let us not allow these words to vanish, for they just might be the talismans against a nequient language of vacuity and tortiloquys only agonyclites and grammaticasters could worship! The power is in our hands, let us make known to our foes the meaning of theomeny no odynometer could measure!

OR


Follow this link and adopt a word. http://savethewords.org/
Asides from saving words from extinction, you get to expand your vocab, criticize the grammatically wounded intro above, be prepared for an upcoming WriterSkill activity, and most of all, you get to sound smart!

Don't forget to reply in the comment box and tell us what word(s) have you adopted!

Special Prompt

Hello boys and girls of WriterSkill! 

Do you need more prompts to write? Do you like history? Why don't you help out a fellow artist in need!

Rai Perez is looking for writers to help write short stories! The setting is set during the Phil-American war, and she's not focusing on the big things that happened but the little things: re-concentration laws, war atrocities and experiences of the local populace. So, if you want to firm those writing muscles, go go go! Here's a note from her:

Hi, I'm another Rai from ID and I'm currently in need of contributing writers for my Senior's Creative Project. I'm compiling an anthology which I will then illustrate into sequential art. The stories are set during the years of 1898-1903 of the American Occupation. Its historical fiction, so full creative license is can be wielded over your characters. So for anyone interested in history or just want to challenge themselves with story prompts, or just wants to have their work adapted into sequential art...  

I've set up a group which would basically function as the creative cauldron for the whole project in which the prompts will be posted every few weeks, or if anyone has his own story in mind...

http://asia.groups.yahoo.com/group/perez_seniorcreativeproject/

Post A Secret Prompt

Hi guys! Join the special PostSecret prompt! Work on strangers' secrets! Give them life, color, form, emotion, image, narrative, rhetoric, humor-- or anything you can think of!

Simply go to the workshops files of this ygroup, and click the 'post a secret prompt' folder!


What: "Post A Secret" online prompt
Word limit: No limit, as short or long as you like
Due: August 31
Submit: via email at WSWorkshops1011@yahoo.com

INTRODUCTION
This activity is going to use post cards submitted to the original POSTSECRET.com as prompts for writing. You are free to write fiction, creative non-fiction, drama or poetry.

WHAT IS POSTSECRET.com?
An online community where they invite people from all around the world to send creative postcards with their SECRETS on them. check it out: http://www.postsecret.com/

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Download the selection of postcards by taking finalcopy.zip. Pick one - three postcard you would like to use / deal with. A maximum of 3 postcards can be used for one writer.

2. The post card's message may be used as a theme for your work, as an actual secret that is revealed, or as an event that unfolds. You are free to interpret, add to or embellish the secret as you wish. Bonus points for including the images found in your post card.

3. You are given until the end of August to write your story down. Edit and submit the completed draft for compilation by August 31. Remember the number of your post card.

4. bonus: Include your "story plan"-- your developing conflict / premise / theme, some character sketches, other ideas, and what you wanted to achieve.

SEND TO:
WSWorkshops1011@yahoo.com

WITH THE SUBJECT OF:
postcard#_lastname (ie. postcard4_villanueva)
multiple postcards: postcard#-#-#_lastname

DOCUMENT TITLE: storytitle.doc ; storytitleplot.doc (for bonus)

August Prompts: Rewrites

Re-writes

In this day and age we've read and seen many successful (and unsuccessful) re-writes of old ideas: from movies like 10 Things I Hate About You to graphic novels like Fables; and from short stories such as Snow, Glass and Apples to novels and musicals like Wicked. Now it's your turn to twist and warp what's already been done.

This months' 11 prompts revolve around re-writes. Write a re-write of an already known story, or, re-write yourself and your reality!  If you can't seem to think of any re-writes you could do, check out these prompts:

1. Loosely rewrite a popular book. Twilight's plot: A vampire, a werewolf, and a girl. Re-write the story, make your first chapter.

2. Re-write yourself in a distant future. Write a plot that you would want to be a part of.

3. Re-write a popular children's nursery rhyme or fable into one for adults. (horror, erotica, reality, philosophical, etc)

4. Everyone thinks hell is a pit of fire with people being whipped and burned and tortured. You visited one day. How would hell look like to you? Who would you find there? What is there to do?

5. Write about your past (poem or essay) that you had always wanted to change, and rewrite the situation.

6. Fanfiction is a celebrated re-writing exercise. Write a short aftermath piece of a famous story you like. For example, a Harry Potter situation after the war: Voldemort wins, and Harry is dead and buried.

7. Re-write a piece of history. Add a certain flavor genre to it (horror, fantasy, romance)

8. Answer this reflection: If you were to re-write something, what would you write about and why? What would you change and why would you change it? What would you keep and why keep it?

9. Take out one of your old unfinished works, change a setting or character or event, and finish it.

10. Make a short story with an animal that could serve as your main character. Destroy all stereotypes of this animal, make him / her distinct. (For example, a duckling that doesn't follow his mother, a vegetarian or melancholy hyena, an ugly swan, a wise and serene donkey)

11. Re-write a sport: incorporate science fiction, fantasy, or horror.

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For stories that are actually novels, only one chapter of your re-write is necessary.

You are open to write about anything or anyone and in any genre (fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama.) You may bend the prompts to fit the genre you want. You may also suggest ideas for this prompt list, submitted no later than the third week of the month.

Deadline of works are on August 31. Start typing and enjoy!