Creative Writing Prompts
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moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
I love my job only when I'm on vacation.-
The Words khayál (khyl ) & tamaththala
The Words khayál (khyl ) & tamaththala
3.1
In the Quran and the hadith there are a few instances of khayál. The concept of khayál is used to refer both to the mental faculty of imagination and to the world as it manifests itself, as a kind of “imagination.” Ibn al-'Arabi explains it so:
In the Quran and the hadith there are a few instances of khayál. The concept of khayál is used to refer both to the mental faculty of imagination and to the world as it manifests itself, as a kind of “imagination.” Ibn al-'Arabi explains it so:
“Imagination
is neither existent nor non-existent, neither known nor unknown, neither
negated nor affirmed. For example a person perceives his form in a mirror. He knows
for certain that he has perceived his form in one respect and he knows for
certain that he has not perceived his form in another respect. … He cannot deny
that he has seen his form, and he knows that his form is not in the mirror, nor
is it between himself and the mirror. …
SPK: The Sufi Path Of
Knowledge; Ibn al-‘Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination; William C. Chittick;
SUNY Press, 1989
Contributed by Farooq
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a fictional account describing a conspiracy theory about what
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character who believes in one or more conspiracy theories.
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people—or other nonhuman characters, if you prefer—from very different
backgrounds sharing a meal together. What do they learn about each other that
they weren't expecting?
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an animal that symbolizes something else. It can represent a concept, an
experience, an emotion, a historical moment, or anything else you can think of.
Think back to a moment where you've
come to the end of the road with something important in your life—a
relationship with a lover; moving out of your childhood home; graduation from
school; etc. Write a scene wrapped around that moment, describing how you felt
(good and bad) and how you...
You favorite article of clothing has
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love it so much you feel a need to send it off properly. Write a eulogy
dedicated to that piece of clothing and all the times you shared together.
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a scene about that adventure, who the famous people are and what you do to
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You're a teenager and it's the last
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course of those summer months, you fell in love for the first time and that
person is moving away (and breaking up with you). Write the scene where you say
goodbye....
You're the lead singer/songwriter of
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album. Write the lyrics to that song.
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school and you're introducing him to your parents. Also, after dinner, he makes
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to the celebration, your father brings someone else—and tells you that this
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this scene.
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his/her same high school in the 80s and has to spend a day in that era before
finding a way to time-travel back.
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with the line, "I can't believe I didn't see that coming." Be as
creative as you can.
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things about yourself that are true and one that's a lie. Then, go on to at
least one other person's post and guess which one is the lie.
The Hitchhiker
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story about three people who are on a road trip together, only to stop off at a
gas station and pick up a fourth person whom they don't know. Why did they pick
this person up? Where are they taking him/her? What happens?
First Day of School
Write about a first day of school—it can be
your very first day, it can be the first day of a particular year or at a
particular school, it can be a fictional first day. Dive into the emotions you
felt as well as what you thought that year may hold.
Books and Characters
Write a
story that begins with the title of the book you’ve most recently read and ends
with the name of your favorite character that you’ve written.
Letter to the Author
Have the
main character in your novel (or short story) write a letter to you. What would
they say? Have them write whatever you want.
Killing Clichés
Write 10
sentences using a different cliché in each. Now, rewrite the sentence to
eliminate the cliché and find a more clever and creative way to convey its
meaning.
Thanksgiving Burgers
Write about
the only time you hosted Thanksgiving. Start with the line, "For my first
Thanksgiving as host, I bought the biggest turkey they had in the store,"
and end your story with "And that's why we all ate hamburgers."
Hey Diddle Diddle
Write a love
story about the dish and the spoon from the classic nursery rhyme “Hey Diddle
Diddle.” How did they meet and why did they decide to run away together? Will
their relationship last?
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