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Writing prompt No. 56

A weekly writing exercise to get you started
By Heather Wright
Published: July 20, 2012
Write a diary entry that your character would have written about an important event in his or her childhood. Use your character’s child voice to write the diary entry. If your character is already a child, have them write about the same event looking back as an adult.



Heather Wright's work has been published in local and national publications and on the Web. Her column “Write Angles,” published in What If? Canada’s Creative Magazine for Teens, became the basis of her book, Writing Fiction: A Hands-On Guide for Teens.


 

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ABIGAIL CHRISTIANSEN from OHIO said:
So, it's more a poem than a journal entry but it just kinda happened that way so:
I didn’t know what was happening then. I was only five. All of the adults kept pacing, hearts racing, hands shaking. I didn’t know what was happening then. I am an orphan. Jedidiah is missing, Yara is crying, the king is dying. I didn’t know the world was changing. The borders were shifted, the boundaries were lifted, it was the time of the Gifted. I didn’t know the world was changing. The throne is defeated, the city is decimated, we are evacuated. I know now what happened then. The world was changing, the powers rearranging, our enemies raging. I know now what happened then. I was spared so that my story might be shared and cause others to care.
BRANDY STEIN said:
Octobert 15, 200?

Dad didn't come home today. I waited by the window until his friend Enrique showed up. Him and my Mom went into my parent's room. After awhile my Mom started yelling and throwing things. Why won't my Mom come home? I know he can make my Mom better.
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MAUREEN BLAIN from NEW YORK said:
I think this is a great prompt. I can really work with this and it is fitting for the novel I am working on now. Thank you.
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