John Marsden Writing Topic #29
List three things that are unlikely to be ever made out of glass.** 1. A bed 2. An (entire) house 3. A car **Reference: Marsden, J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
Read moreList three things that are unlikely to be ever made out of glass.** 1. A bed 2. An (entire) house 3. A car **Reference: Marsden, J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
Read moreYou find a bicycle in a chimney. Give four explanations of how it came to be there.** 1. Someone tried to throw the bike onto the roof from the inside the house via the chimney. 2. Someone tried to break into the house by riding a bike down the chimney. 3. The bike was on the roof and a gust
Read moreWhat are three things that could never be photographed?** 1. An illusion 2. A memory 3. A dream **Reference: Marsden, J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
Read moreI’ve read John Marsden’s Everything I Know About Writing several times and I have always been amazed by the 600 writing topics in the back, however I have never attempted to write stories on all 600 topics. Now that I have set up this flash fiction website, I’m going to give it a go. Each story (either non-fiction or fiction)
Read moreThe New Year is coming up, it’s time for a change, it’s time for new scenery and exploration. It’s time to travel! Goodbye house, goodbye family, goodbye boyfriend, goodbye job, goodbye life! I’ll see you in a year’s time, watch out Europe, I’m on my way!
Read moreI hate job interviews, but this one I bombed in. I was nervous enough as it is, but the interviewer had parsley in her teeth and as she talked, it moved around to different teeth somehow and I couldn’t help myself—I burst into fits of laughter. I tried to calm myself down a little bit and told her and she
Read moreI’ve never been a big gardener so I don’t know why my sister gave me a hanging plant for my apartment balcony for my birthday. Seriously she’s my sister she could and should have done better than that. I didn’t mean to, but I work long hours and I forgot to water it, it didn’t take long for it to
Read moreI’ve always wanted pets, but when I was a kid my parents couldn’t afford to care for it and then when I grew up and was renting and pets weren’t allowed on the lease. Now that I’ve retired, I don’t have the strength to look after a pet, but that doesn’t mean I can’t have one. My daughter bought me
Read moreI was never a big believer in Halloween but my little boy is. He’s always loved dressing up but the fact he can dress up and get free chocolate—of course he’s a big believer! Because I’ve had cancer for the last few years so I haven’t been able to trick or treat with him, but now I’m cancer free and
Read moreWell it’s official, I have to go on a diet and I have to lose weight. My ticker got a bad mark on its last test and cramming some good foods and fasting at the last minute didn’t really help. I’ve got to lose the fat, lose the salt, lose the sugar, lose the weight, lose everything I know and
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