Creative Writing; Thursday, Second Period [01/19].

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"Good morning, ducklings ♥!" Shunsui greeted the class as they got settled into their little writing circle, with the usual pleased, sleepy grin on his face as he began to get things going for their lesson that day. "I hope you've all been having a good week, and that you're ready to explore the Art of Creative Writing a little bit further today ♥. Now, there are so many directions we can take a topic as broad as this one, that it is sometimes difficult to know where to start! But we all have to start somewhere, neh ♥? And then who knows where it will go from there?

"That," he said with a faint chuckle, "is what we'll be playing with today ♥. We will be participating in a slightly modified version of what is known as a Kyokusui-no-en, or 'Winding Stream Party,' which was a very popular event in the past where Japanese nobility, poets, and artists would get together and have a little party in some beautiful and inspired location, to create beautiful things and drink beautiful wine ♥. And centered around this party was a game, where one person would craft the first line of a poem, and the next person had the time it took for a cup of sake to drift down to them along a stream to think of the next one. Now, we clearly have no stream or sake, but we do have a comfortable circle and some lovely tea, and I'd like to see what sort of story we can craft by passing it long to each other, one line at a time ♥. We'll each take turns presenting a first line, and go along with the next person building onto it with the next line, and then the next person with the next, so on and so forth, just to see where we can take each other with the narrative.

"Sounds pretty simple, neh ♥? Do we have any questions, or would someone like to get us started with a good first line?"

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Sign In - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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With a beginning...

Re: Sign In - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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Graham Cracker

Re: Sign In - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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Tahani al-Jamil

Listen to the Lecture - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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As he's explaining the activity for today's class, Shunsui does sort of regret not making this a field trip or tapping into the danger shop, but also, that would have been a little bit more work, so story circle it is!

Class Activity: Kyokusui-no-en Story Circle - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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The activity is simple: someone starts out with the first line of a story, and then the next person jumps in with the second line to continue it. Someone else will add a third, and then everyone takes turns until the story reaches some kind of conclusion, or it just rambles on until the end of class.

Everyone can have a chance to offer a first line, though! The more stories, the merrier!

Re: Class Activity: Kyokusui-no-en Story Circle - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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"Hmmmm...." Graham put his fingers to his chin thoughtfully as he tried to think of a good opening line.

Well, the problem wasn't that he couldn't think of one; the problem was that he could think of too many of them, and it was just a matter of trying to figure out which way to go with it. But, since he had his game tomorrow on his mind, the one he ended up going with was:

"Once upon a time," of course, how else where you going to begin a story?, "there was a little goblin named Brikks, who wanted more than anything to go on a graaaand adventure!"

And then he looked eagerly over to his other classmates to see who wanted to jump in on that great opening! He was really excited to see where this all might go!

Talk to the Teacher - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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Even when it's not being used as an excuse to just get drunk with fellow poets and writers, Shunsui always does love a good Kyokusui-no-en.

It helps that it's an extremely easy and undemanding assignment, too.

OOC - Creative Writing, 01/19.

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