Story Starter: Imagine you shrink to the size of an ant. What do...

✍️Quill Brief #66

Imagine you shrink to the size of an ant.

🎯 Your mission

Surprise yourself by sentence three.

⚡ The twist

Start in the middle of the action, not the morning.

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Warm-up scribble

Write the first sentence of a story you'll never finish.

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Mentor sentence

🥐 "Her hands shook as she opened the envelope." (We don't need to be told she's nervous.)

Instructions

Use this as a story starter: Imagine you shrink to the size of an ant. What do you see? Write at least one paragraph.

Creative Writing

Use this as a story starter: Imagine you shrink to the size of an ant. What do you see? Write at least one paragraph.

Writing Prompt:

Imagine you shrink to the size of an ant. What do you see?

0 words / 30 minimum

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Why this matters in real life

The people who tell stories well shape how everyone else sees the world.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Take a small moment from today and turn it into a 3-paragraph story.

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For the dinner table

“Tell me the story you wrote — in your own words.”

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