Blunt pencils and robots on the moon
Whilst scrolling through twitter I stumbled upon a profile about primary school problems which had me in hysterics because it was all so true. Then some of my own primary school memories started flooding back. One of the tweets was about ending stories in school with 'and it had all been a dream' and that got me thinking about how I used to start and end my stories.
When in school we were taught some stock ways to finish and end stories such as :-
One day I was reading out my story and I was renowned for finishing them with 'and they lived happily ever after' so my exasperated teacher got the class to finish my story in a sing song voice. But, I proved her wrong and said "Nooooooo! And they lived sadly ever after!". I felt very smug about that bit of creative genius.
Also, did anyone else have teachers say that your story was too short so you had to make it longer? Once we were all told to write stories about a robot and feeling very content with my 1 and a half pages of writing I proudly presented it to my teacher. She took one glance at the length and just handed it straight back. "You need to write more." I was dumbfounded. Why would I write more when my story was finished? So I took it back and could not think of what else happened to the robot. He had landed on the moon and that in my eyes was the goal of the story. So I made him start making daisy chains (on the moon) with some new friends (on the moon). That only added a few more sentences though and I needed to fill the rest of the page.
A few years later I wrote an entire story with a blunt pencil and when it came to marking my teacher couldn't read it. She called me over to read it to her and I had absolutely no clue what it was about. A dragon maybe? Was a knight involved? Despite having only wrote the story a couple of hours before I didn't remember a single thing. It was as if my pencil had made the story up by itself.
How did you start your childhood stories?
Did you write anything fantastical?
Sophie
When in school we were taught some stock ways to finish and end stories such as :-
- Once upon a time
- On a dark and stormy night
- And it had all been a dream
- And they lived happily ever after
One day I was reading out my story and I was renowned for finishing them with 'and they lived happily ever after' so my exasperated teacher got the class to finish my story in a sing song voice. But, I proved her wrong and said "Nooooooo! And they lived sadly ever after!". I felt very smug about that bit of creative genius.
Also, did anyone else have teachers say that your story was too short so you had to make it longer? Once we were all told to write stories about a robot and feeling very content with my 1 and a half pages of writing I proudly presented it to my teacher. She took one glance at the length and just handed it straight back. "You need to write more." I was dumbfounded. Why would I write more when my story was finished? So I took it back and could not think of what else happened to the robot. He had landed on the moon and that in my eyes was the goal of the story. So I made him start making daisy chains (on the moon) with some new friends (on the moon). That only added a few more sentences though and I needed to fill the rest of the page.
'And he was very very very very very very very very very......happy'
I just wrote very until it filled the page. She wasn't happy with that either but hey my story was finished!
A few years later I wrote an entire story with a blunt pencil and when it came to marking my teacher couldn't read it. She called me over to read it to her and I had absolutely no clue what it was about. A dragon maybe? Was a knight involved? Despite having only wrote the story a couple of hours before I didn't remember a single thing. It was as if my pencil had made the story up by itself.
How did you start your childhood stories?
Did you write anything fantastical?
Sophie
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