Writing The Rest Of The Story

Let's have some fun today and write a story together. Remember that game you'd play in youth group where one person says a sentence to start you off, then the next person can add any sentence they want and take the story in a new direction? Think creatively and we'll see what we can write for a number of different genres using the same pictures.

My chosen pictures are of our holey tree. (Not holy - it's not saved.) This cavity has been home to a lot of things over the years, as you can guess by the amount of being that's in there. And unless you walk up and peek in, you'll never know what's inside because of the shape of the tree.

So here is the first sentence of a story about my tree in several different genres. Pick one (or a few) and add to the story with your own ideas. If you come up with a story you love, please share it with me!

Action & Adventure: After packing up her parachute, our heroine tucked the secret code book into the hole of a nearby tree and snuck away into the night.

Biography: All of the major moments in her life wrapped around that tree like its bark, and she had placed all her joys and sorrows in the crevice of its trunk.

Dystopian Fiction: Her people had been oppressed for so many generations that her family couldn't even remember stories about green trees and black dirt, let alone know what creatures might have lived inside them.

History: When Iowa became a state in 1846, the old tree the girl was now hiding her toys in was no taller than she is, meaning it had seen so much over the past 179 years.

Humor: Leaf your worries behind and have a tree-mendous time in the woods this weekend, but don't bark up the wrong tree. Wood you believe I'm branching out here?

Memoir: My entire adult life was spent wishing I was home on the farm and reliving the simple times, like exploring the worn-away cavity of my favorite tree.

Mystery & Crime: The case containing all the clues she needed was hidden inside one of these trees, but how would she figure out which one, and would it be too late to save her friend by the time she found it?

Philosophy: If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Religion & Spirituality: The simple tree has been a focal point of Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, from Creation to the Tree of Life and Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil to the tree used to make an old rugged cross.

Thriller & Suspense: She could hear the footsteps behind her, thundering through the ground, and all she could think was that she had to find a hiding place like the hollow of a huge tree.

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