Please work through the resource below and post your creative writing in the comments. We look forward to reading your responses.
Please work through the resource below and post your creative writing in the comments. We look forward to reading your responses.
Once upon a time lived a rhino who performed in a circus he always wanted to be in a circus and here he was in front of a thousand people he never believed what he saw so what he did is went world wide he was all over the news paper until one of his acts in America. He was doing what he usually did and suddenly the roof of the circus collapsed. Everyone ran away apart from three people!They put a net around him and brought him into the jungle across beaches and deserts and oceans all the way to a strange island and they took the net off and started talking we don’t know what they said but after they went back across the oceans through the deserts to put him in the worlds biggest circus!The rhino lived happily ever after then he carried on with his career and loved it.
Thanks for your lively and thoughtful version Monty. What a great idea to have a cyclic structure – the rhino starting and ending happily in the circus. That’s a structure I had not thought of.
Once upon a time there lived a desperate rhino. He was in need of food, water and shelter. His mother had sorrowfully died when he was just a little baby. He met a courageous girl named Abbie. She was just 6 years old but had enough maturity and height to be mistaken as 9. She at once took hold of the situation and snuck the rhino in her house when her parents were asleep. Eventually, she admitted the sad truth. She had to move house with her curious parents who though this house was cursed. They saw how peanuts and large loaves of bread had seemed to magically disappeared during the night. Large hoof prints have also been spotted to appear in the mud trenches outside their house. Abbie, on the strike of midnight, sped out of her door , clenched the crudely made lead and led her rhino in the direction of the nearest circus. Eventually when they got there, the ringmaster, Mr Crawford accepted the rhino with open arms. And so both lived happily ever after. The End
Wow! Thanks Leon. So, you present the circus as a place that will welcome all sorts of folk and their unusual friendships! It’s a powerful metaphor, I think. As well as this ‘big picture’, there were some close up moments I really enjoyed in your story: the missing peanuts, the hoof prints and the crudely made lead. You have a gift for poignant comedy. Thankyou so much for sharing this. I hope it was fun and that you shared with folk at home.
Years ago a young rhino who’s dream was to act in a circus. He wanted to act in front of hundreds of people! Well after years of desperate training he finally went to a circus and when he got there he met a friend a little girl who was going to act with him. Her name was Sophie she kindly snuck him food in the night because the master of the circus did not feed him enough. After several years of moving to other circuses the human signed a paper that Sophie was holding. Then the girl unlocked his cage he was free! His dream had been completed so they all thrived to the end. The End
Do they live happily ever after in the jungle, I wonder? Thanks for your story, Stan. You have seen the same tension that I saw in the pictures. Can performing in the circus be a happy ending – or will it feel like a trap to an animal that was born in the wild?
the girls wakes up then she screams then the bear jumps out the window then she looks out the window. then she adopts the bear then becomes friends. then parents hear a big roar and call the police . the bear gets captured and brought to a zoo then th jirl proves that he isnt bad
Ah! You used the picture on the first slide, Peter! What a great story structure. We think the bear is the problem, then its the parents (and police) who misunderstand him that are the problem, but the girl hero solves this! I wonder how she ‘proves he isn’t bad’? Could you add more detail to this final episode in your story?
Once upon a time, a playful young girl named Ellie went to bed without clearing her toys up. However, this never effected her as she just wanted to sleep. She was sleeping elegantly when an immense sized bear had crept into the bedroom she was resting in. On this intrigued bears mission from one side of the room to the other, he tripped multiple times over Ellies messy toys. Of course he’d never seen a toy in his life. He panicked as soon as he saw a child sleeping in the same room as he was. In shock he stood there silently staring. After a while he decided it would be best to leave but as soon as he attempted to, Ellie woke up. After a slight silence they began to talk. Surprisingly in the end, they became friends and they lived happily ever after.
Thank you for your submission Mia. I enjoyed reading it.
Once upon a time, there was a considerate, young girl who adopted a neglected-old ronyon-of-a-rhino she found hiding shyly behind the garbage bins standing in an alleyway – under the pitiless, pelting rain. She caressed its dry, cracked skin lovingly, contemplating her integrity. The girl knew the rhino was happy to be with her, but she wanted to do something else for her. She felt that the feminine rhino needed to have another happiness in her life: like singing on a stage; or dancing with professionals; or… performing in a… circus? The young girl caught sight of a dilapidated old piece of parchment – of what used to be a poster – laid carefully against a segment of bark.
It said the very words: “Need a tightrope-walker to juggle for the Clown Circus. Sign-ups are at the reception. See map and address below for details.”
“Perfect!” she thought, “this is a perfect opportunity! My rhino will be the happiest rhino in the world!”
With the blink of an eye, the palpably talented duo were performing live in front of a sea of a demanding audience. The lights were dimmed, but the silhouettes of the two were thankfully incongruous in the circus’ tent.
So the girl and her rhino had a new life, alive in the circus…. Inevitably, they lived happily every after…
Thankyou Aman. I enjoyed your buoyant and humorous narrative voice. A voice for modern fairytale. It is interesting that you have decided the life of performance is the happy ending. Could you see how the opposite could also work – with their life in the forest as their resting place?
The excitement of the zoo was the same as it always was. Stacey was visiting with a childhood friend, whom she hadn’t seen in such a while. It was one of the small occasions where she wasn’t under the watch of a newer friend, who would follow Stacey relentlessly.
At the zoo, there was a rhino, the sign said they had found the rhino in a circus, and it liked to perform tricks. But the poor creature had no wanting to do anything like that. When it wanted to graze it was starered at by millions, zookeepers throwing rings and balls, expecting a show. The poor animal hated it. Always have hated it.
After closing time and Stacey bid her friend farewell, and went to bed, a dream surfaced. It was her, in the woods, leading the rhino to a safe place using a handmade cordage, clearly made from the stringy fibre in plant stalks. The air around them was hot, and the dusty pathway was starting to fade, but shestayed determined, she needed to keep them safe…
Wow – Sophie you have taken the possibility offered by the two images and developed a poignant and engaging narrative structure from them. This really is creativity. Can she bring her dream of escape to life?