Write about a character in a new strange situation
Creative writing
Submitted 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh no, Gregor!?!
ftbd@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I just hope his family takes good care of him
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
lol … teacher tells students to be creative … teacher is shocked when students are very creative
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 weeks ago
Don’t hug me, I’m scared.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
guillem@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
New school stories are just low intensity cosmic horror.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah… school for me at least was a race to the bottom. Test scores and homework quotas superseded teaching creativity or critical thinking.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
In a roundabout way it disillusioned me right quick and taught me how to creatively find ways to break their credits systems so I could be there as little as possible while still passing all the higher class tier mandatories.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can’t get over how my then friend decided to write a multi-page over-sexualized fanfic of Final Fantasy for an assignment in middle school. My teacher was surprisingly nonchalant but you could tell she was carefully picking her words.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
[slowly choked] “Harder!” said the squid
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The teacher needed a lesson on giving clear assignments, as well as a lesson why ecosystems matter.
That being said, I would write about a student teleported from the school into some alien school somewhere off-planet & slowly choke to death.
fodor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
As a teacher, I feel the opposite. I think the teacher now has entertaining stories that they can show to co-workers about how messed up the kids are these days. It’s a kind of therapy for everyone involved.
The only tricky point is when kids write things that are NSFW and then you have to require that they revise them to be SFW, when many kids are not good at understanding the difference, and specifically why it matters in a school environment.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh, yeah, totally, I didn’t even detect anything bad with that scenario - my joke-point was centered around the fact that the teacher “was mad” about the outcome.
NSFW/SFW stuff should be part of the general rules of the class or school anyway.
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I was the kid whose creating writing assignments over the years triggered more than one parent-teacher conference.
But in all fairness, I absolutely loved horror movies and my parents let me watch pretty much whatever scary movies I wanted regardless of the violence and sexual content. And I turned out okay, I guess, depending on who you ask and relatively speaking. I mean, I have relatives around the same age who are already dead due to their bad decisions in life, so I’m just saying who cares if an 8 year old writes a story about crocodile-like aliens that eat their meals ass first.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You wrote stories about Martha Stewart at that age?
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t you fucking dare speak ill of my Martha. I will hunt you down and force you to eat honey braised turnips from Martha’s website until you agree that her shit’s the bomb
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Final state changes are too common a theme in creative writing.
grueling_spool@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Every rime with every writing assignment.
Someone assighed ‘what do you believe’ and got 3 pages of an 11 year old girl’s thoughts on descartes.
Thank fuck that computer never connected to the internet.
josefo@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
Did something similar when I was 11. We had to take inspiration from a picture. The picture in question was that “optical illusion” with the old lady face that kinda looks like a young lady in a dress. I wrote about an old lady that was alone, old her friends and husband dead, all her child far away. She basically contemplated her existence, waiting for her death. Teacher made us read it out loud, when I was done reading, I remember raisin my head an everyone including the teacher had this somber stare, pondering life. It was cool.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
got the assignment to create a layer of hell… unmedicated…
A whole globe of soggy unbreakable weighted blanket over top of you where it is freezing cold. Since the entire earth is covered in it you can’t get out from under it. There are also razor wires like those army crawls from movies.
The worst part of it is, you still get cut. No matter how long you try to stay put, in infinite time you eventually WILL go out form your safe zone and get covered in tiny razor scars. At first this isn’t a bad thing, you can still heal. But again over infinite time those tiny cuts will begin to built up and up.
suicide & self harm
I went into detail about the first person to get into my layer of hell explored and found the razor wire, and how he remembers the pain and how he at first avoided them. Then he reminisces about how since there was nothing else to do he caved into an addiction of routinely cutting himself deeper and deeper. Continually he would cut and heal, cut and heal. Over time his body began to wear out, his fingers slowly became stubs of flesh, his ears nothing but tubes. His eyes were gone. He had no more vocal cords from screaming in pain. His entire body was scar tissue and scabs. He was eternally sick from the cold and damp and ate mold for sustenance. Through endless attempts of suicide he would always wake up with no sense of time to go by it was like nothing changed except the blood and pain.
Thousands of years later by the time somebody else evil enough to get sent to the same date he is still serving to this day, he was hardly human. They came and saw him they thought he was a monster. Nobody is willing to try to see him, much less communicate to him. He has wisdom of how to avoid the suffering as long as you can before losing sanity but he has nobody to speak to. His knowledge impossible to share and his suffering endless. He knows that throughout infinity they will all meet the same fate as him, or what’s left of him by that point.…yeah so I was a little bit fucked up :3
RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
So you can’t die there? Considering that person would be there for an infinite amount of time they would die eventually no? Humans would rather feel pain than boredom. They would eventually be cut to pieces. Like grating a person really slowly. Eventually they won’t have a body. (Unless you count all their pieces of flesh as a body.)
Osan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mine ended with something like “and everyone who is still alive and didn’t die yet lived happily ever after”
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
She wanted a “fish out of water” story and was handed a cephalopod in the jungle.
If she can’t see the symbolism in that story then she has no business being an English teacher.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What if he was spongebob tho
dickalan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a 40 year-old man who literally just started SpongeBob yesterday, I understood this reference