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Cpat92 On May 16, 2021
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Lauderhill, Florida
#1New Post! Jan 15, 2019 @ 20:45:11
For my final assignment in my creative writing class, we have to make writing portfolio. It has to consist of 4 poems, 2 short stories and a short play, or 2 short plays and a short story ( 4 poems isn't an option). I have 3 and a half poems already. 3 are old ones I have already written and submitted, one is a new one I have yet to complete. I have one short story that I am completing today and I have a play idea, I just have to work on the conflict. I'm drawing blanks on my last short story. I just need an idea, or topic. He said there's no rules in this. As long as the portfolio is under 20 pages.
Darkman666 On about 12 hours ago




Saint Louis, Missouri
#2New Post! Jan 15, 2019 @ 22:03:47
here is my idea- a small man falls in a toilet, and he can't out. his dog, lassie try to helps him out of the toilet. but, lassie grabs the toilet's handle by mistake, and flush him down the toilet. lassie just smile and said, " I don't who in the hell is lassie is, my name is butch!! "
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#3New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 00:51:19
@Cpat92 Said

For my final assignment in my creative writing class, we have to make writing portfolio. It has to consist of 4 poems, 2 short stories and a short play, or 2 short plays and a short story ( 4 poems isn't an option). I have 3 and a half poems already. 3 are old ones I have already written and submitted, one is a new one I have yet to complete. I have one short story that I am completing today and I have a play idea, I just have to work on the conflict. I'm drawing blanks on my last short story. I just need an idea, or topic. He said there's no rules in this. As long as the portfolio is under 20 pages.



You were in the service.
Didn't you live, or hear of some little adventure worth embellishing?
- or several to mix together?

Make it fiction, but it'll give you a framework.

Like for me, (in a pinch) I could write about a bunch of frat boys taking a spring break trip in an RV through Florida
... been there, done that - I'm sure I could make up a lot more than what happened.


And good luck in your final stretch!!
Ghyda On February 11, 2020




Anaheim, California
#4New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 01:32:18
Write about 20 year old girl, who has a 80 year old sugar daddy.

Maybe the girl has two nipples on her left breast, and the sugar daddy forgot his Viagra.
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#5New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 01:51:16
@Ghyda Said

Write about 20 year old girl, who has a 80 year old sugar daddy.

Maybe the girl has two nipples on her left breast, and the sugar daddy forgot his Viagra.




@Ghyda - Long time no see!
nooneinparticular On March 16, 2023




, Hawaii
#7New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 03:58:33
Best to start with what you know. A funny story (or even a boring one in which you can make funny, like walking down the street and then getting accosted by a magical jackal) could provide a good start. Since it's a short story, character and plot matter less. Throw in a couple of jokes or funny turns and you should have enough material to work with. Barring personal experiences, your next best bet is mutating one of the classical story structures to create something short and sweet. Like taking the idea of the heroes journey and turning it into how a child eventually triumphed over a gigantic dust bunny in their basement or something along those lines.
Darkman666 On about 12 hours ago




Saint Louis, Missouri
#8New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 04:16:33
there is an old man about walking into intersection at a busy street. the old man wasn't watching he was doing, he thought the traffic light turn green, and sign, and said. ' walk '. all sudden, this dog sitting near the intersection on the same side of the corner of the old man.

then the dog saw a truck coming down the street, and heading the old man. the dog see the sign saying, ' red '. the old man about step off the curb of the street and get ready to get hit by the truck. the dog screams out, " watch out! " the old man seen the dog, and he lost his balance, he was in shock, when he see the dog.

then the old man falls forward off the curb, and then the truck hit him. the old man died instantly. then the old man goes to heaven, the old man wakes up and ask, ' where am I? " and god said to the old man, ' you are in heaven, my son! "

then the old man looks happen and confuse, and then the old man said to god, " god, do you that dogs can talk? "
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#9New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 12:42:36
@nooneinparticular Said
taking the idea of the heroes journey


A re-telling of the tale of Singring and the Glass Guitar (An electrified Fairytale)!



This is an electrified fairy tale. If you've never heard of an electrified fairy tale,
just picture little fairies with wee tiny electric guitars....
Erimitus On July 01, 2021




The mind of God, Antarctica
#10New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 13:44:57
Once upon a time... yada, yada, yada... and they lived happily ever after.
Eaglebauer On July 23, 2019
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Saint Louis, Missouri
#11New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 20:14:36
So real story: There's an inn off the coast of San Francisco looking for a new couple to act as caretakers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/real-estate/san-francisco-lighthouse-offering-couple-130g-to-operate-island-inn.amp

They get a 130K a year paycheck and live on a small island to run the inn, but the catch is whoever takes the job has to be a couple, one with professional culinary experience and one with a Coast Guard commercial boat operator's license. That part is all non fiction (see the link)

So...

The fiction idea is a young woman who has gone through culinary school and has a little professional experience and she really wants the job, but she's not married. So she finds this hunky guy who has a boating license to pretend to be her husband. They get the job and she starts falling for him but he turns out to be a serial killer.

It almost writes itself
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#12New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 20:27:34
@Eaglebauer Said

So real story: There's an inn off the coast of San Francisco looking for a new couple to act as caretakers.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxnews.com/real-estate/san-francisco-lighthouse-offering-couple-130g-to-operate-island-inn.amp

They get a 130K a year paycheck and live on a small island to run the inn, but the catch is whoever takes the job has to be a couple, one with professional culinary experience and one with a Coast Guard commercial boat operator's license. That part is all non fiction (see the link)

So...

The fiction idea is a young woman who has gone through culinary school and has a little professional experience and she really wants the job, but she's not married. So she finds this hunky guy who has a boating license to pretend to be her husband. They get the job and she starts falling for him but he turns out to be a serial killer.

It almost writes itself


"A Good Marriage" by Stephen King (kinda)!
Eaglebauer On July 23, 2019
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Saint Louis, Missouri
#13New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 21:53:57
@mrmhead Said

"A Good Marriage" by Stephen King (kinda)!



Never read it...maybe I will.

The only King novel I ever read was 11/22/62 and I devoured it in like four days.
gakINGKONG On October 18, 2022




, Florida
#14New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 22:35:49
@Cpat92 Said

For my final assignment in my creative writing class, we have to make writing portfolio. It has to consist of 4 poems, 2 short stories and a short play, or 2 short plays and a short story ( 4 poems isn't an option). I have 3 and a half poems already. 3 are old ones I have already written and submitted, one is a new one I have yet to complete. I have one short story that I am completing today and I have a play idea, I just have to work on the conflict. I'm drawing blanks on my last short story. I just need an idea, or topic. He said there's no rules in this. As long as the portfolio is under 20 pages.



Write a story of all that happened between 0445hrs and 0730hrs Monday week two of basic
mrmhead On May 02, 2023




NE, Ohio
#15New Post! Jan 16, 2019 @ 23:43:09
@Eaglebauer Said

Never read it...maybe I will.

The only King novel I ever read was 11/22/62 and I devoured it in like four days.



It's a novella in Full Dark, No Stars.
It's also a movie - fairly well made in relation to the book. Much better than a number of other movies made from his stories.
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