‘Growing up beats throwing up.’ Do you agree?** This such a weird quote to me, I wasn’t actually sure whether Marsden was quoting something or someone, but considering he usually acknowledges when he does, I assume he made it up. To answer the question, I believe growing up does beat throwing up. With growing up, you can almost do whatever
Read more‘Obstacles are a stimulus to him/her.’ Is that true for you? Give examples.** I believe this is true for me as it makes life interesting, that being said it all depends on what the obstacle is. Examples for me include all of my uni assessments as they were obstacles to completing my subjects so I could graduate. My uni assessments
Read moreDescribe something you used to believe in but now don’t** I used to believe that abortion was murder due to my childhood spent at church, however when I started high school, my church was sold or something, I’m not sure what happened, but as my mother stopped going there, so did I, so I drifted away from being devout. As
Read moreYou have a magic button on your shirt. Every time you twist it…** At the Touch of a Button I have a magic button on my blouse with a clock on it that is second from the top and closest to my heart. Every time I twist it, I can travel back in time. I can twist it to
Read moreWrite a piece where the end of the story is told at the beginning** The Day When the Most Unexpected Thing Happened Wednesday March 23rd 2011 9.15am I was at campus, in the communications building, chatting with my friend and classmate; Kelly, awaiting the start of our journalism lecture when you were pronounced dead. There is a saying that
Read moreThe shortest poem ever written is claimed to be this, by Ogden Nash: ‘To my Goldfish’ Wet Pet. Write one of approximately equal length** To my Bra Rack Sack **Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
Read moreThese are all the common words that rhyme with ‘-ainly’: plainly, mainly, sanely, vainly, urbanely, profanely, ungainly, humanely, insanely, inhumanely. Write a rhyming poem using some or all of these words** Plain Jane Jane looked plainly, this was due to her mainly not wearing make-up or her hair down. She acted sanely, never vainly or insanely, nor spoke profanely.
Read moreDescribe a zoo in which there are cages for the abstract: e.g. for hatred, for the wind** Mental Jungle We’re going to the zoo today! We’re going to the zoo today! What are we going to see? It’s not an ordinary zoo you see? The animals aren’t the ones on show: no lions, lemurs or chimpanzees, it’s not a
Read morePersonify some great force, such as the ocean** Waves (Taken Hold) The waves that took you away from me are trying to draw me in I know this— when the waves: salty and cold wash over my toes as if they know I’m afraid of what’s in the water. Because they don’t care whether you are young or old I
Read moreWrite a poem that describes something or someone (you, perhaps) as it is on the outside and as it is on the inside** Appearances You see her on the outside, but do you really see the inside? She walks around with a spring in her step, smiling to the world, what the world doesn’t know is that she has
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