AGENDA:
Pick up Things Not Seen in library.
Begin reading 1st chapter
Who is Bobby? Why does he feel like his parents do not allow him to make his own
decisions and live his own life? What happens to Bobby when he wakes up in the
morning? What is Bobby's challenge in the book? Why is this important? How does it
change his life? Do you think that Bobby turning invisible is a scientific matter or more of
a psychological matter that represents how Bobby feels? Do you think that Bobby
feeling like an outsider at his school is normal for a 15-year-old or do you think that
there are other circumstances that are making Bobby feel this way?
Speculative Fiction/What if questions/Brainstorming for story
AGENDA:
Speculative fiction is an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements. This includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction as well as combinations thereof.What if? We love to frame questions like this. Fortunately these questions can typically help the creative juices flow as well. Try using these “what if” scenarios to spark additional ideas for stories, poems or whatever your heart cares to write.
Read and select 5 possibilities for a story you may want to write.
Post your five questions in a blog post.
Read and select 5 possibilities for a story you may want to write.
Post your five questions in a blog post.
Creative Writing Prompts on What If Scenarios
1. What if you found your pet flying around the room?
2. What if you woke up and had a super power?
3. What if you suddenly lost your ability to drive a car?
4. What if you received a call that your parent was deathly ill or had even passed away overnight?
5. What if you discovered that you had another sibling?
6. What if you had the option of winning a large sum of money at the price of losing a significant memory?
7. What if you discovered that a loved one was a serial killer?
8. What if inanimate objects could speak to you?
9. What if the world found out the world was going to be destroyed in 2 weeks?
10. What if you met someone who could see the future?
11. What if your friend joined a cult that worshipped dogs?
12. What if you could change your career right now? You can do anything you want and do it well.
13. What if you could pick the next person to be a great leader of a country? Who would it be?
14. What if you woke up in a world that had absolutely no crime?
15. What if you could change people’s views on social issues such as abortion and other rights? How would you use it?
16. What if you stumbled upon $100,000 cash that was from someone who sells illegal drugs?
17. What if you had the ability to grow plants to their maturity at will?
18. What if you could speak to people who have died? Who would you speak to?
19. What if you could time travel into the past and future? How would you use this skill? What would you change?
20. What if your pet could only talk to you at midnight for an hour?
21. What if you discovered a creature that promised it could give peace to the world?
22. What if you could sacrifice your life to save a community of people who need drastic help?
23. What if you could live in any world from a fantasy or science fiction novel or show?
24. What if you could find the strength to forgive anyone, no matter how badly they have hurt you?
25. What if you could make any religious belief truly real? Which one would you pick and why?
26. What if you could stop a substance from being addicting? What would it be?
27. What if you could make someone fall in love with you?
28. What if an alien suddenly approached you and asked for your friendship?
29. What if you found out that someone has been hunting you for the past year with the intention of killing you?
30. What if you found a piece of jewelry that could give you the ability to fly?
31. What if you were hiking and heard a young child screaming deep into the woods?
32. What if you found out that in your past life you were a great historical figure?
33. What if electricity and any other power source was unavailable for a full week? What would happen?
34. What if your child or another loved one suddenly disappeared?
35. What if you found out that your coworkers could all read your mind?
36. What if you were unable to smile for a full month?
37. What if you could resurrect only one person who has died?
38. What if you had the problem to completely solve only one of the world’s issues? What would it be? How would you come to that choice?
39. What if you realized you were going to die 24 hours from now?
40. What if you could become a world-renowned expert on one subject? What would it be?
41. What if you woke up and your body was made out of bacon or some other type of food?
42. What if you had the power to instantly destroy the world?
43. What if you had the chance to do a complete reset on your life?
44. What if you found out all the answers to the greatest mysteries in the world?
45. What if you could break all the rules and never get caught for three days?
46. What if you could completely change the way you look? What would you change?
47. What if you could change the political structure of any nature? What would you change? Why?
48. What if you could create any mythological creature of your choice? What would it be?
49. What if you could cast a spell on someone you dislike? What spell would it be?
50. What if you could be fluent in any specific language? Which language would you choose?
51. What if someone from private numbers were constantly calling you for three days straight?
52. What if someone tried to say you committed a crime that you did not do?
53. What if you found out that your significant other betrayed you?
54. What if you could stop an event in history from happening? Would you or would you be afraid of the possible negative repercussions from it?
55. What if you were having a disagreement with someone and they pulled out a firearm?
56. What if you could control the score of the a major sporting event such as the Olympics, Super Bowl or World Cup?
57. What if you could meet yourself as the opposite sex? For example, if you are a woman, you might meet yourself as a man. Would you talk to your other self? How would you react?
58. What if you woke up and found out that you were a centaur? How would you react? What would you do?
59. What if you could meet your true love, but he or she would be catching you in the act of doing something unethical?
60. What if you could have all your bills paid for the rest of your life, but you had to eat 300 mushrooms everyday?
61. What if you could write a letter to God and know that he will listen and take into account everything you say? What would you write?
62. What if you found out that you were going to come back as a ghost after you die?
63. What if you had a chance to do a boot camp? What kind of boot camp would you do and why?
64. What if you could create your own TV show with all your friends and loved ones as the cast? What kind of show would it be and who would play which parts?
65. What if you could ask for a warning about anything such as your death, a job loss, or an injury? What would you ask for and why?
66. What if you could drive to another object in our solar system such as the moon, sun or another planet? Would you?
67. What if you could successfully help a fundraiser raise the funds for their goal? What fundraiser would it be and why would you choose to help?
68. What if you found out you were going to accomplish everything you set your mind to for the next 10 hours? What would you do?
69. What if you could ask for a miracle and it would actually happen? What would that be?
70. What if you could control exactly how the last day of your life would go? What would it be like? Who would be with you?
71. What if you found the cure for one illness, mental or physical? What would you choose to cure?
72. What if you could make a high quality parody of something? What would it be?
73. What if you could stop time but you could only use this skill three times? How would you use it?
74. What if you could give your neighborhood a gift, that is free of charge for you? What would it be? Remember gifts can have both positive and negative intentions.
75. What if you could be anywhere for the next hour? Where would you go or would you just stay where you are?
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ReplyDeleteWhat if you woke up and had a super power?
ReplyDeleteWhat if your pet could only talk to you at midnight for an hour?
What if you found a piece of jewelry that could give you the ability to fly?
What if you could become a world-renowned expert on one subject? What would it be?
What if you could stop time but you could only use this skill three times? How would you use it?
Probably talking to a pet.
DeletePros: Being able to talk whenever, having someone to listen to you, never being alone.
Cons: Only talking for an hour late at night, talking for so long ever single night, never being alone.
7. What if you discovered that a loved one was a serial killer?
ReplyDelete8. What if inanimate objects could speak to you?
17. What if you had the ability to grow plants to their maturity at will?
31. What if you were hiking and heard a young child screaming deep into the woods?
You would have a choice to either help the child or not. If you didn't and someone found out about then you would look guilty.
29. What if you found out that someone has been hunting you for the past year with the intention of killing you?
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ReplyDelete1. What if you found your pet flying around the room?
ReplyDeleteI would consider it normal because I have a pet Cockatoo.
2. What if you woke up and had a super power?
Hopefully I would have the power to read minds because I would always be able to know what people are thinking about me, but most likely wont like what they're thinking.
3. What if you suddenly lost your ability to drive a car?
If I lost ability to drive it would suck and it would be hard to get up.
4. What if you received a call that your parent was deathly ill or had even passed away overnight?
I would cry and my entire life would be over (unless it was my piece of crap father, i would prolly celebrate if it was my father,)
5. What if you discovered that you had another sibling?
This actually happened to me, I discovered that I had another siblings on my fathers side, it would pretty cool but I completely forgot that person existed.
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Delete18. What if you could speak to people who have died? Who would you speak to?
ReplyDelete22. What if you could sacrifice your life to save a community of people who need drastic help?
32. What if you found out that in your past life you were a great historical figure?
37. What if you could resurrect only one person who has died?
43. What if you had the chance to do a complete reset on your life?
61. What if you could write a letter to God and know that he will listen and take into account everything you say? What would you write?
61. God might take what you say and change it or you might ask him for something but don't like the outcome.
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ReplyDeleteWhat if you could meet yourself as the opposite sex? For example, if you are a woman, you might meet yourself as a man. Would you talk to yourself? How would you react?
ReplyDeleteWhat if you found out that someone has been hunting you for the past year with the intention of killing you?
I would say thank you for investing so much time in me. If they’re looking for the perfect time to kill me though, they should’ve figured out they can trip me down the stairs with ease and that I leave my window open each night. That even if I don’t sleep at night, you can easily snipe me or come up behind me with a knife. Or that I’m home alone every day//every night. I’m usually alone outside of school. So, they must be holding back for some reason. They must've seen me cry at night, or seen me jumping around in my room early in the morning. They’ve seen so much, I can really only think they’ve left me alive this long to see what happens next. What comes after the crying, the laughing, the jokes, the advice. But if they haven’t been looking after me for that long and waiting for me to reveal something, I’ll have you know I write my personal information on my walls because I can’t remember anything. I’m not going to inherent me and if someone sent you, then wow. Thank you for going through all the trouble.
What if you could meet your true love, but he or she would be catching you in the act of doing something unethical?
What if you found out that you were going to come back as a ghost after you die?
What if you met someone who could see the future?
42. What if you had the power to instantly destroy the world?
ReplyDelete46. What if you could completely change the way you look? What would you change?
24. What if you could find the strength to forgive anyone, no matter how badly they have hurt you?
32. What if you found out that in your past life you were a great historical figure? This would be a difficult story to write because you’d have to have flashbacks and switch between future and past tense.
59. What if you could meet your true love, but he or she would be catching you in the act of doing something unethical?
20. What if your pet could only talk to you at midnight for an hour?
ReplyDelete52. What if someone tried to say you committed a crime that you did not do?
29. What if you found out that someone has been hunting you for the past year with the intention of killing you?
49. What if you could cast a spell on someone you dislike? What spell would it be?
35. What if you found out that your coworkers could all read your mind?
I feel like number 20 would be nice because you and ya pet can just vibe together. Talk about anything and what your pet notices and stuff like that
What if you realized you were going to die 24 hours from now?
ReplyDeleteWhat if you had the chance to do a complete reset on your life?
What if you could resurrect only one person who has died?
What if you met someone who could see the future?
What if you had the power to read minds?
If I met someone who could see the future, I wouldn’t want to. If I would talk to them, I would want to ask about myself. They would probably tell me something good that going to happen or something exciting. I would and ask about something bad that’s gonna happen to me or something that heavily impacts me in the future. Knowing that one thing would make me so paranoid,m and I would try to avoid that situation and doing that would take away from the happy aspects in my life. I would be so stuck on that bad thing that I would drive away from the good things in life. So I personally wouldn’t want to meet someone who could see the future.
What if you discovered that you had another sibling?
ReplyDeleteWhat if you could control exactly how the last day of your life would go? What would it be like? Who would be with you?
What if you found out that you were going to come back as a ghost after you die?
What if you could write a letter to God and know that he will listen and take into account everything you say? What would you write?
What if you could resurrect only one person who has died?
I think when you bring someone back from the dead that person would be traumatized. They would have seen everything that came after death: being buried, heaven vs hell, the white light, other dead relatives
Historians will recognize he/she from old news articles and want to interview him
They will be wearing out- of- style clothes so they would stand out in public
Won’t know how to use modern-day technology
Begin to slowly disappear over time: body parts, memories, then they go back at midnight
Changes the ideas of the people to make the future better
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ReplyDeleteWhat if you stumbled upon $100,000 cash that was from someone who sells illegal drugs?
ReplyDeleteWhat if you could speak to people who have died? Who would you speak to?
What if you could make someone fall in love with you?
What if you were hiking and heard a young child screaming deep into the woods?
What if you could resurrect only one person who has died?
What if you realized you were going to die 24 hours from now?
What if you could have all your bills paid for the rest of your life, but you had to eat 300 mushrooms everyday?
What if you stumbled upon $100,000 cash that was from someone who sells illegal drugs?
I would clean the money by spending it all on stuff I can return. Eventually I would return all the stuff for cash and then I would go on a actual shopping spree for myself.
What if you met someone who could see the future?
ReplyDeleteIf I met someone who you see the future I wouldn’t want to know my future. I wouldn’t want to know because I don't want to have to live my life in fear. Its a good idea, but it just comes with a lot of problems. One being you will never be able to fully live your life, but you could probably change something you don’t want to happen. Ultimately I think regardless of if you could see the future fate is fate, and what is meant to happen will.
What if you could be anywhere for the next hour? Where would you go or would you just stay where you are?
ReplyDeleteWhat if you could ask for a miracle and it would actually happen? What would that be?
What if you could write a letter to God and know that he will listen and take into account everything you say? What would you write?
What if you had the chance to do a complete reset on your life?
What if someone from private numbers were constantly calling you for three days straight?
What if you could write a letter to God and know that he will listen and take into account everything you say? What would you write?
You may seem ungrateful and get negative karma for not cherishing what you have
You can seem needy
Life may change to be completely different
9. What if the world found out the world was going to be destroyed in two weeks?
ReplyDelete23. What if you could live in any world from a fantasy or science fiction novel or show?
43. What if you had the chance to do a complete reset on your life?
46. What if you could completely change the way you look? What would you change?
70. What if you could control exactly how the last day of your life would go? What would it be like? Who would be with you?
If I could control exactly how the last day of my life would go, i would choose to spend the entire day w/t the cast of vampire diaries, the originals, legacies, shadowhunters, descendants and the twilight saga. Then I would have a big meal containing all my favorite foods with my family and friends.