Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council
Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council
Creative Writing Exercises - Leicestershire County Council
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14 Line Poem<br />
You will need: , a range of<br />
What to do:<br />
• Get the participants to choose an object.<br />
Section C 85<br />
Warm-ups<br />
• Read out the following questions and get the participants to answer them from the point<br />
of view of the chosen object, (as ‘I’).<br />
What are you? (e.g. ‘I am a cracked bottle...’)<br />
How are you feeling now?<br />
Where would you rather be?<br />
What relationships do you have?<br />
(i.e. describe family, friends, how you get on with<br />
other bottles)<br />
What do you dream of doing?<br />
What worries you?<br />
What would you like others to think of you?<br />
What keeps you awake at nights? (thoughts or external things)<br />
What is the best thing you ever did?<br />
What is the worst thing you ever did? (e.g. ‘I once ...’)<br />
What makes you feel guilty?<br />
What is your favourite time of day/night?<br />
What is the point of your life?<br />
How would you like to be remembered?<br />
• Give participants a few minutes to look at their own work, or, depending on the nature of the<br />
workshop, at others’.<br />
• Read out the work (especially different poems on the same object) and discuss.<br />
Exercise given by John Gallas<br />
Hanuman mask, Myths & Legends display<br />
WORDS<br />
THINGS&<br />
workshops
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