A selection of prompts from the Writing with Leaves Workshop
Thank you to everyone who attended Writing with Leaves!
I was so happy to have the chance to share my thoughts on the relationships between world building, mythology, and ecosystems!
For those of you who missed this session, I am hoping to hold another later this spring, along with similar writing workshops!
For the time being, I have attached a few of the prompts from the event!!
These are out of context, but I would still be interested to hear what you come up with! If you would like to send me your writings please email them to me at bending.tree.education@gmail.com. I will send you back comments, and 20% off on your next workshop!
PROMPTS
Three minutes: Write down 5-10 parts of a tree and what you think (or know) their purpose is. Don’t worry about being exactly correct.
Four minutes: describe a tree. Is it very big, very small, does it stand straight? Does it grow along the ground?
Ten minutes: Leaves are ways for the sun to eat. They take in the sun and turn it into chlorophyll that the tree can eat. Some trees lose their leaves and some don’t. If they live in colder climates the leaves might be a bit tougher, smaller even, the way pine needles are. Or, if they are in a rainforest, they may not need to lose their leaves because they get a lot of sun.
How do your leaves take in the sun? Get creative on this!
What are the seasons of your tree? Does it flower? Have fruit? Lose its leaves?
Ten minutes: What does your character want from this tree? How do they see the tree? Do they have a memory with it? Do they value this tree?
Ten minutes: What does the tree want and how are they planning to achieve this?
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