Start of the line rhyme - Varjak Paw - O. (I).

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24th September

Prompts / date	24  September 2015
FMS Photo a day	green
Text type	Start of the line rhyme
Sentence type	O. (I).
Story	Varjak Paw

O. (I).

outside: inside

2 related sentences. Outside (action), inside (reveals true feelings)

Kate ate the cake her friend gave to her with excitement. However, she wished she had refused it. She smiled at the cheeky boy. At the same time she was hurt by his tricks.

Varjak Paw was told that a 'true' Mesopotamian blue has green eyes.

Start of the line rhyme

Rhyming words start, rather than end the lines. As this is hard to maintain, it is fine to include the rhyming words in the first few syllables of a line:

One morning a letter came in the post

And yawning, a stepsister picked it up.

The Paws are an extended family of Mesopotamian Blue cats,

Whose claws are not needed in their luxury life with The Contessa.

They rarely venture out, even into the garden: Mother says,

"It’s a fairly nasty, dirty place in that garden.”

Beyond these doors ‘Outside’, there are huge, fierce monsters called dogs.

Fond of dreaming, was Varjak, the youngest kitten,

He was teased and bullied by his family

Displeased by his eyes: amber not green

(As the eyes of a true Mesopotamian Blue should be).

He relies on his grandfather's tales of their ancestor Jalal,

Who "travelled to the ends of the earth, further than any cat had been before",

A true hunter, who "fought the fiercest warrior cats".

Varjak gets his chance to shine when the Contessa dies,

Black cats and a sinister "Gentleman"

Take over the house

Moreover, Elder Paw insists that the Mesopotamians

Must escape the house at once, but they refuse.

Thrust aside, he turns to Varjak for help.

Varjak's task is to go over the wall surrounding the house,

And ask a dog to help them –

A dog alone could make the gentleman become

Overthrown – a dog is so big and fierce.

He will recognise a dog because they

"Fill the heart with fear, with their foul breath and deafening sound".

Varjak climbed bravely over the wall and ventured into the City.

Despite his bravery, he was a scared and inexperienced kitten.

Enough of my attempts – if I continue my poem, I’ll spoil the story for you.

Now. can you adapt the last two lines so that they have a 'start of the line rhyme'?

Or, why not try your own?

The Mouse and the Lion - lipogram - verb, person

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23rd September

Well, as this is about a mouse and a lion, the only vowel left is an ‘a’. Let’s see how I get on.

Prompts / date	23  September 2015
FMS Photo a day	yellow
Text type	lipogram
Sentence type	Verb, person
Story	The mouse and the lion

verb, person

gives sentence importance

verb is followed by a comma then name or personal pronoun

Tiptoeing, he tried to sneak out.

Lipogram

Another Oulipian technique

The text is constrained by excluding a particular letter, usually a vowel.

The little grey mouse bumped into the huge, sleeping, yellow lion in the forest. Unwisely, he climbed up onto the lion, crowing: “Snoozy old lions do not bother us mice!” The lion, by now not sleepy, but wired, held the mouse down. His mouth drooling, thinking of his dinner.

The mouse begged for its life, “Don’t kill me. In time I will help you!”  The lion, finding this thought ridiculous, let the mouse go.

The next morning, the mouse does indeed help the lion, who is in a hunter’s net. The mouse chewed through the rope. The lion is reprieved, he couldn’t believe it: “You wonderful mouse!”

I have an ‘a’ – just one! Can you help me out? Can you Change that sentence?

Tele acrostic - Prince Lindworm - the more, the more

  

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22nd September

 I couldn't get the sentence type in this text - there were too many constraints as it was. So I added it as the caption for the photo.

Prompts / date	22 September 2015
FMS Photo a day	Orange
Text type	Tele-acrostic
Sentence type	The more, the more
Story	Prince Lindworm

the more, the more

develops character trait

1st more followed by emotion then a comma. 2nd more followed by related action.

The more angry he became, the more mistakes he made.

Tele acrostic

The focus word or phrase is the first and last letter of each line – this makes it somewhat more complex than a basic acrostic, or hidden acrostic.

The more the Queen peeled the fruit, the more layers there seemed to be.

Please help me have the son I long for,” begged the Queen of the fairy; so sad she couldn’t sleep.

“Right after you bath tonight eat the two fruit which will appear and you will have what you long for.

If you want two healthy princes, peel them before you eat them when you get out of the Jacuzzi.”

Now, after her bath, the Queen was so excited to see the fruit, she ate the first with the peel still on.

“Can’t hurt, can it? But I’ll peel the second one, even if the instruction is cryptic.”

Eventually she gave birth. The first was a hideous monster, the second, a perfect prince.

Lindworm snaked into forest. The Queen denied his existence while the other was the pride of all.

“I wish I’d peeled the seven skins from both fruits: I would have two beautiful bambini!

“Now you are a young man, it is time to marry,” the King told his son.

Dressed in his finery, he set out to find a bride, but instead saw a hideous Lindworm in the road.

“What are you doing? I am the first born, I deserve a bride first, after all these years of sorrow!”

“Oh, have mercy!” cried the Queen to the king who felt murderous. “It’s my fault he’s causing this hullabaloo!”

Riches were promised to a farm girl’s family, after Lindworm had eaten two brides in an unlikely manner.

Marry they did, and because the old fairy told her how to break the curse, their life together was a happy dream.

Mirror snowball - Chicken Licken - 3 _ed

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21st September

Prompts / date	21 September 2015
FMS Photo a day	red
Text type	Mirror snowball
Sentence type	3 _ed
Story	Chicken Licken

Do you think Chicken Licken could have been related to the Little Red Hen (I had to get 'red' in there somehow!)

3 _ed: Describes emotions. Start with 3 adjectives ending in _ed, all followed by commas   

Confused, shocked, scared, the children ran from the burning building.

Mirror Snowball

Oulipian technique

Poem with one word on the first line, one more word on each line until there are eight words. Thenn one less word on each line until the last line has one word.

Each line must make sense on its own.

1 Licken,

2 The Chicken:

3 “The sky’s falling!”

4 “Oh no!” said Ducky.

5 “We must tell the king!”

6 “Where are you going?” asked Goosey.

7 “The sky’s falling! We’re telling the King!”

8 Confused, shocked, bewildered, the friends set off aimlessly.

7 ”Where are you going?” asked Foxy Loxy.

6 “To the King, the sky’s falling!”

5 “I’ll help you, follow me!”

4 And so they did…

3 To his den

2 Oh no…

1 Dinner!

Week 1 prompts - September 1st to 7th 2015

If you are playing along, each piece of writing should include all four elements. 
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Sept	FMS Photo Prompt			Text Type (Alan Peat)			sentence type  (Alan Peat)	original story
1	in my wardrobe			limerick			simile	The Gruffalo
2	happiness is			monosyllabic			3 x bad adj - question	The Happy Prince
3	bedtime			neverending tale			short	East of the Sun and West of the Moon
4	my passion			similes			If, if, if, then	Pinocchio
5	sparkle			flashbacks			De:de	Cinderella
6	in the air			renga			All the W's	The Fisherman and his Wife

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Text types

Monosyllabic: only use words of one syllable to re-tell the story

Never ending tale: write a story that once you read it, if you start again it makes sense, so that in fact you could start anywhere. What if ...

a prince married a woman with two daughters. The prince is exiled by the king. His daughter (cinderella) is left with her step mother and step sisters to be treated as a slave. Another prince has a ball, Cinderella goes with the help of a fairy godmother, she loses a slipper. The prince finds her, they marry and have a child, but tragically Cinderella dies. The prince names the child Cinderella. He later falls in love again. (back to the start)

Similes - put as many as you can into one story. Don't worry about over-doing it.

Renga: like a Haiku, but can be any length and is often collaboratively written.

odd numbered stanzas lines are: 5-7-5 syllables

even numbered stanzas lines are: 7-7 syllables