Week 4: Creative Writing: Due Monday May 2
AFTER reading pages xv-30, 223-245, and 273-286 of What If, complete the following
creative exercises.
1. Using the detailed directions on p. 7-11 as a prompt, write ten (or more) of your
own opening lines for ten different stories.
2. Using the detailed directions on p. 12-13 as a prompt, choose one of your first
sentences from the first exercise and take it to entirely different stories by adding
five (or more!) different second sentences.
3. Choose one of your first/second sentence combinations from exercise 2 and
continue writing to complete a short-short story of 500-1000 words.
4. Alternatively, you may write 2 or 3 flash fictions of 250-500 words. Feel free to
try one or more of the prompts in Part 11 if you wish.
Submit by Monday, May 2.
 List of 10 or more first lines.
 List of 5 or more first line/second line combinations.
 Your complete short-short story (500 words and up), OR your 2 or 3 flash fictions
(250 words and up).
Submit the short-short story (or at least 1 flash fiction) to your new writing group
also by Monday, May 2.