Today's Quick Write Challenge!
Today is all about continuing the narrative in the same style as the author. Use the skills you have learned this year (setting snapshot, character snapshot, zoom in moment etc.) as you write!
Option One:
Excerpt from "Vampirates"
by Justin Somper Excerpt from "Vampirates"
“You know it is. The captain tells us…”
“Maybe I’m tired of being told things by the captain. Maybe I’m ready to make my own decisions.”
Though unsure exactly what they were talking about, Grace had heard enough to be extremely worried. This time, she wouldn’t just listen. She darted around the cabin, blowing out the candles. As the last flame was extinguished, she found herself cloaked in utter darkness. It took her a moment to get her bearings and for her eyes to find their hold in the darkness. But then she stepped up to the curtain and drew it slowly back.
She pressed up to the glass and looked outside…
Option Two:
Excerpt from "The Unseen"
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
It all began on a cold day in early autumn when a girl named Alexandra Hobson was playing a dangerous game in a forbidden forest. The game, about an enchanted creature, half human and half animal, had been inspired by the fact that Alexandra, or Xandra, as she preferred to be called, believed herself to be enchanted in some deep secret and very private way. In a way that ordinary human beings could never understand or appreciate. Particularly not the humans who happened to be members of her own family and who, in spite of what most people thought, were all hopelessly ordinary.
As for the forbidden forest, the forest was real...
