Writing Starter 40

You and two other members of your family are in an argument about what the best movie ever made is. Write 15-20 lines of dialogue about this discussion where you ultimately change your mind.

Me: The best movie ever is Mean Girls
Dad: No.
Erica: No it's looney toons!
Me: That's not even a movie.
Erica: So?
Me: So it doesn't count.
Erica: It should
Me: No.
Erica: Yes.
Dad: It's a short film technically
Me: Not a movie.
Erica: IT COUNTS!
Me: Fine, it counts.
Erica: Yes.
Dad: Why couldn't I have sons?
Me: ....
Erica: ......

Writing Starter 39

You win a contest, and your prize is to have lunch with the meanest teacher in the school. Set the scene and write at least 10 lines of dialogue between you and the teacher.

Me: Hello. 
Them: Hi Alex.
Me: How are you today?
Them: I'm all right,how are you.
Me: Good. Except I don't understand why anyone would enter a contest with this as the prize.
Them: Yeah, I'm not sure what the point was.
Me: No offense.
Them: None taken. What would you like to do during todays lunch?
Me: Actually, would you critique my paper?
Them: sure. 
Me: Thank you!

Writing Starter 38

Write a scene for a play (10-15 lines) where a character apologizes to another without using the words “sorry,” “apology,” or “fault.”

Me: I am very remorseful towards you. I wish I had not stolen your dog.
Them: Thank you, dear. I understand she is a very cute dog.
Me: Yes, the cutest. But it is no excuse for me to steal her.
Them: True, true. I forgive you, but I don't know if I can ever trust you around my dog again.
Me: NO! Please let me see her
Them: How can I be sure you won't take her again?
Me: Trust me. I promise.
Them: We will see how it goes; day by day.
Me: I guess that's  fair
Them: you know.. you could get your own dog....
Me: Oh my gosh what a good idea!
Them: Would you like me to help you pick one out?
Me: Absolutely. Can we go right now?
Them: Sure
*get a new dog*

Writing Starter 37

Duck: "Why didn't you see the tree? You were looking right at it!"
Me: "Sorry, I was a little busy looking at a talking duck.."
Duck: Not this again...
Me: Yep. Why can you talk anyway?
Duck: I'm not quite sure honestly.
Me: Were you enchanted or something?
Duck: I don't quite know. One day I just woke up and humans could understand what I was trying to say.
Me: Dude you should totally use that to your advantage.
Duck: How?
Me: I don't know, get in a commercial or something.
Duck: I honestly just want to be a normal duck.
Me: Don't you get it? You'll never be normal now!
Duck: Maybe I'll just isolate myself from all humans and ducks and never know love or friendship again.
Me: No don't do that!
Duck: I'm doing that
Me: Bye
Duck: Bye

Writing Starter 36

I hate peas

Peas are gross

They are mushy

Which is gross

Peas are squishy

Which is weird

My mom thinks peas are good

She says they taste great

She decided I must eat them

Or I would be the subject of her hate

So, one night

I ate peas.

Writing Starter 35

My shadow is cool

It's always there

In sun, you'll see

It never leaves me alone

My shadow follows me like a fool

because it's there, I'm never scared

Its always there to protect me

and make sure I get safely home

Song

Looking Back

I try to not look back but looking back is something so divine,
It draws your attention like the northern lights and the way they shine
Like a dream of mine that seemed so real
like falling asleep behind the wheel

Waking up with everything
turned upside down
how should I feel when something so beautiful
has enough appeal for me to change my life

I follow my ambition
Try to ignite a future, a future I'd like
Filled with love and beauty and happiness
It felt so right
But I was told I was wrong
So I changed this party beat about
Kalamazoo to a sad love song

The things you said could've filled my head
like a respirator
afloat, away from the dead
now I keep walking
trying to realize that those things
are only read in history books
recording the long beautiful life I've led
But I'll never forget those things you said
Those history books right beside my bed

No, I'm doing okay
I don't live a life full of regrets
and pay tribute to the social political views
that happiness ain't inside of you
Happiness is what I choose
but I wanna choose is with you
and be the proof
that everyday we can choose what to do with it

A lightbulb is a sign of a mind
and of great realizations
sometimes lightbulbs burn out
just like my old vacation home
got burned by the things you told me
it was beautiful
what we had
I'll remember that
when I look back and relive my past

but in life

souls unwind, love is, 

love is happiness in Plato's brilliant mind

Poetic rhymes cannot take back time

or change details that've become so fine

looking back on the times of our lives 

only keeps our path behind

when you were mine
people still got us asking it
yeah, I think we're doing alright
the days remembered
when you'd play, sunburnt red
time to go and forget all that stuff you had said
false persona, aura, that feeling I have
before I just try and get up, and let go of the past
yeah I try, I admit, I think it's better that way
cuz I can never fully let go of everything that you have to say

I can't rationalize things like this that happen to me
or to anybody,
I swear some things
they just can't be
and sometimes you wish the son would just turn its back
so I could stay in bed forever
and not have to interact
with anybody I see
or just happen to speak to
with nobody to look at me, in my face they can see right through

cause in life

souls unwind

love is, love is happiness in Plato's brilliant mind

Poetic rhymes cannot take back time

or change details that've become so fine

looking back on the times of our lives 

only keeps our path behind