What’s it Like?
“What’s it Like?” is a prompt I used to encourage the imaginations of students at Floyd’s independent Blue Mountain School when I taught creative writing there years ago. I would cut out strange images (usually from National Geographic) and ask the kids ‘what’s it like?” The idea was for them to not say what they thought the image really was, but to describe it by saying what it was like.
So, what’s this like?
January 22nd, 2011 1:45 pm
Cocoa…sweet and fattening.
January 22nd, 2011 2:03 pm
I keep thinking of Medusa’s hair.
January 22nd, 2011 4:32 pm
It’s like someone dropped their chocolate ice cream cone and now it is melting away.
January 22nd, 2011 9:54 pm
Chocolate Melting!!
January 23rd, 2011 1:27 am
It’s creamy chocolate slowly melting into a pool on pebbles.
January 23rd, 2011 8:42 am
it’s like a giant, chocolate raindrop and i’m getting ready to lie on my back with my mouth open!
January 23rd, 2011 10:28 am
But it’s totally a troll doll!
January 23rd, 2011 11:37 am
for more prompts ran across this roundup lately: http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/friday-freeforall-6/
January 23rd, 2011 11:37 am
and looks like a sinkhole to me.
January 23rd, 2011 12:59 pm
It’s like milk chocolate pudding on top of crushed cookies waiting to be eaten alfresco.
January 23rd, 2011 5:02 pm
It’s like a marshmallow dropped into a cup of hot chocolate.
January 24th, 2011 10:48 am
I keep coming back to this picture and seeing a “neuron”… a large nerve cell with the reflections of the trees like turned in dendrites and the center round nucleus with grainy mitochondria and a small nucleolus. A bit eerie actually.
January 25th, 2011 2:57 pm
I’ve fallen thru a tear in space and time where everyone else sees chocolate and I don’t. It’s the beta universe Pearl.
February 8th, 2013 1:41 pm
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