Writing Prompt
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WRITING OBSTACLE
Choose any book, and rewrite the blurb so that it appears to be a different genre.
Word choice and emphasis on different aspects of a story can transform perceptions of a book entirely. Bonus points if your readers can guess which book it is!
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In a future where the afterlife is a realm of endless possibilities, "The Lovely Bones" follows young Susie Salmon, a spirit untethered by time and space. After a tragic end on Earth, she awakens in a celestial observatory, a place where the souls of the departed monitor the living. As Susie watches over her family from this cosmic vantage point, she navigates through the stars, learning to manipu...
To say he had a reputation was the understatement of the century. Being born to a family of means and importance had kept him in good stead despite his many indiscretions. No woman would ever tame him though several had tried. Until a chance encounter at a barbecue tested his rakish ways. With the drums of civil war beating in the background, he found his heart racing in a way it never had before....
I am running so fast with my red-headed mate and a friend of ours we met over a hundred years ago that mere humans cannot see us with their poor eyesight. We came from Ontario and are heading north. This thunderstorm is perfect for our kind to be out when we hear the sound of people playing baseball so we run over to them and with my perfect eyesight, I can tell that they are just like us. My frie...
It was time to make a very difficult decision: do I stay and continue to protect my best friend from the Strigoi or do I honor the promise I made to the love of my life during one of our previous conversations? He and I agreed that we would rather be dead than one of them. My heart is being ripped in two and I know regardless of the choice I have to make someone will be hurt. I love them both so m...
Chyna Sheppard stares out the back window of her best friend’s family home. It’s after midnight and yet, Edgler Foreman Vess, her best friend’s brother, stands staring back at her intensely before pulling his shirt off and diving into the pool. She feels a pull, an instinct to go out and talk to him. Edgler lives with an intensity of doing things without reservations and Chyna finds herself trappe...
A bloodthirsty tyrant travels into a series of poor villages every year to capture children, who are promised a life of wealth for themselves and their families if they manage to survive.
The lure of wealth and the desire to live overpowers the kids’ care for one another, causing them to kill each other in the most horrific ways. Most of the ones that live, find that they’ve lost themselves in t...
recounts the adventure of Otto and his Uncle, amnesiac uncle Axel as they explore the route Axel took just before he got amesia to figure out what happen to him.Axel received a unknown letter with secretive information that lead him to a Psychologist who lead them on wild goose chase though thr human psyche until they had a understanding Civilization....
Peeta or Gale was once the question for Katniss, but now they stand a distance from her. Peeta who she’d eat poison berries for rather than kill and Gale who’d she grown up with, leave her to fend for herself amidst a time of unrest. And to complicate her life further, Katniss and Peeta’s rebellions actions may have sparked a rebellion on a larger scale, one that could bring either the Capitol or ...
An English farm is reclaimed by the animals that live on it after they learn to stand up for themselves and begin to make a new way. They quickly discover that running a farm is a tough job and must learn to band together to make it through. Will they learn to work together to make the farm a success? Or will conflict derail their plans?...
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