My World Building kids just turned in a two page creation myth for their world, and I'm not sure if they have more fun doing the homework or I have more fun "correcting" it -- there is only so much correcting to be done, when the whole point of an assignment is to use your imagination.
So far I have a world created by everlasting raindrops who spontaneously form new life within themselves when they get super excited, several worlds formed by different pantheons of competetive (and often interrelated) gods, a world formed artificially by beings escaping earth, at least one caused by a divine sneeze, one formed from the body of a dying creature, and just about anything else you can imagine.
Said worlds are populated by everything from fairies to giant reptiles, from to gnomes to castaways, and from cavemen to highly advanced humanoids.
They are currently working on illustrations for their creation stories, so, if I get their permision, I'll try to scan some of the pictures in for you to see.
The amount of thought, logical thought, that they have put into these things, even just so far, is pretty impressive. It's amazing how much of what's going on in their heads comes out when you let them write and create.
"I write to find out what I'm thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things"
So far I have a world created by everlasting raindrops who spontaneously form new life within themselves when they get super excited, several worlds formed by different pantheons of competetive (and often interrelated) gods, a world formed artificially by beings escaping earth, at least one caused by a divine sneeze, one formed from the body of a dying creature, and just about anything else you can imagine.
Said worlds are populated by everything from fairies to giant reptiles, from to gnomes to castaways, and from cavemen to highly advanced humanoids.
They are currently working on illustrations for their creation stories, so, if I get their permision, I'll try to scan some of the pictures in for you to see.
The amount of thought, logical thought, that they have put into these things, even just so far, is pretty impressive. It's amazing how much of what's going on in their heads comes out when you let them write and create.
"I write to find out what I'm thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things"
-- Julie Alvarez
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