Make a Date with Writing Jan. 29, 2009

I’m author Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff, and I’m beginning a blog today that will tie in dates in history with ideas to inspire your imaginations. We all have days where we stare at our computer screens or the blank piece of paper in front of us and say, “What shall I write about? What shall I draw?” I hope these prompts will spark something within you for your creative project.

This date in 1959, Disney released Sleeping Beauty in the movie theaters. (One of my favorite fairy tales)

Write a fairy tale of your own. Or take an old fairy tale, and give it a new and exciting twist. Update it, combine a bunch of fairy tale characters together, mix and match and presto. Your own fairy tale.

And . . . if you’d like to take this another step . . . illustrate your fairy tale in any medium you choose.

**Reminder** If you are a Contra Costa middle school student, you can enter the California Writers Club Mt. Diablo Young Writers Contest FREE as many times as you like. Categories are short stories, poems, and personal narratives/essays. See www.lizbooks.com or http://mtdiablowriters.org/ for specifics.