Max Tell / Halloween Prompt Three

Roast the Ghost Three

Set a timer for six minutes.

In six minutes write everything that, given the chance to live a better life, you would do differently.

After the six minutes are up, highlight all the good stuff, and then write a poem, song, or story (picture book or YA novel chapter or part of) based on your notes.

Make us laugh.  

Inspired by a writing prompt on a Berklee Online Songwriting Webinar.

Max Tell / Halloween / Writing Prompt Two

Roast the Ghost Two

Set a timer for six minutes.

Write everything that is lousy about being a ghost and being stuck on earth for an eternity as nothing but a shapeless shadow. Write about your senses, and the lingering bad taste in her mouth, what things look like now in comparison to what they had looked like back when she was alive. Think about the awful sounds that haunt her every waking moment and the icky feeling of everything she touches. And finally, how it feels to live the dead life of a ghost whose only experience is one  endless, sleepless, and nightmarish night.

After the six minutes are up, highlight all the good stuff, and then write a poem, song, or story (picture book or YA novel chapter or part of) based on your notes.

Spook us out.  

Inspired by a writing prompt on Berklee College of Music's Online Songwriting Webinar.

© Robert ‘Max Tell’ Stelmach 2014

Spook us out.

Inspired by a writing prompt on Berklee College of Music's Online Songwriting Webinar.

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Max

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Halloween / Writing Prompt One

Roast the Ghost One

Grade 5 and up.

Set a timer for six minutes.

Write everything a ghost did in its living life to cause it to be punished with an existence of floating aimlessly for an eternity with no friends and with nothing to do, but to mourn its many bad deeds.

Concentrate on actions, the bad things it did while alive to its enemies and friends. Try to write constantly, never lifting your pen or pencil from the page.

After the six minutes are up, highlight all the good stuff, and then write a poem, song, or story (picture book or part of a YA novel chapter) based on your notes.

Spook us out.