Day 1 Writing Homework
Prompt : Write a narrative that explores a moment when an ordinary setting reveals extraordinary insight, showing how perception transforms through your character’s experience. Use cohesive imagery and reference 2 senses. Include a circular narrative structure where the opening and closing images echo or transform (500 words).
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The horizon rises before my eyes, the sun gleaming with euphoria and wonder. 7-year-old me, barely able to draw a decent picture, watches the sky. I turn around to the forest. Then I walk in. Just one step. Then another.
The foul smell of mossy fungi envelops my nose, making it impossible to breathe freely. I watch the trees and plants with my mouth wide open, until I realise that it was a mistake. 1 drop. 2 drops. 3 drops. Rainwater fell into my mouth before I could process what was happening. The salt and bitterness bombarded my tongue and taste buds, making me puke out of disgust. The trees laugh at me, then rustle their leaves. The grass teases my foolishness, then they groan in discomfort as the vomit that I spat out lands on their beautiful faces and bodies. I want to cry. But I don’t. I hold the burden within me, hardly being able to keep it in a second longer. I guess you shouldn’t gamble with your decisions, should you?
“If this lands on heads, I’ll venture into that cursed forest for a whole day! But if it lands on tails, you have to do it, not me, OK?” I dared my friend with supreme confidence. He agreed, but maybe Lady Luck wasn’t on my side that day. It landed on heads. I didn’t want to do it, but my friend didn’t care. He watched me go into that forest. Fate himself is laughing his head off at my stupidity!
Inside the thicket, every step sinks into a carpet of rotting leaves, spongy underfoot, the scent rising heavier with each movement. The air clings to my skin, damp with the memory of last night’s rain. Droplets bead on the leaves above, trembling awake with my shuffling and sending a cold shiver down my back when they land. My tongue still tingles from that first assault, but curiosity fights through the discomfort, urging me deeper. My eyes, straining to pierce the green gloom, latch onto a faint patch of sunlight where the canopy parts, a golden promise painted across the forest floor.
The silence now grows, punctuated only by the persistent thump of my own heart and the distant caw of a magpie. Branches twist overhead, some drooping low enough to brush my cheeks, slick and clammy. With every breath, the taste of the forest changes, earthy and acrid, mingling with the iron tang of fear. I try to make sense of the shapes around me, half expecting a beast to emerge, but what I find instead is a tiny mushroom ring, so perfectly symmetrical it looks unnatural, almost like a crown left for a fairy king.
For a moment, unease falls away. I kneel, ignoring the squelch of wet grass against my knees, and gently touch the ring. The damp earth is cool and yields to my finger’s pressure. In that instant, the line between horror and awe blurs, the forest is not just a test or a punishment, but a hidden world, one that laughs, yes, but also accepts, witnesses, and forgives. I listen as the wind moves, whispering secrets through the leaves: “Every explorer is frightened. Every explorer is brave.”
As I stumble back toward the edge of the woods, the sun glances off the horizon, its angle changed, but its colour still bursting with promise. The foul air is behind me. My hands are dirty, my knees stained, and my mouth is cleansed not by water, but by wonder. I see the same horizon again, but this time, instead of only euphoria and wonder, there is knowledge, a secret applause echoing from root to sky, a silent agreement between child and forest. The same sun that shone is now shining, once again, in the same sky.
The End
(Just saying I went a little over the limit, and rushed, so I am not sure if this is the best writing piece I’ve written)
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WK2D1-Charlie Tan
The secrets of the deep sea.
Waves crashed to the shore, the whirlpool grew humongously large as I tried to escape the water. The closer it got the larger it became. Before I could flee, the whirlpool ate me like a beast. As I got sucked into the whirlpool all I could taste was the salty water in the ocean seasoned like a steak. As I held my breath I soon ran out of breath.
2 hours later… I woke up on the bottom of the ocean and I gazed at this giant bubble around this underwater city. I stood up and I saw 2 guards grabbing me and threw me into a prison cell. They had screamed at me angrily like I had done something that could’ve ended the world and yelled “You have been escorted here due to you trespassing into our city and this is where you’ll live for eternity!” My hands quivered, a drop of sweat dropped on my finger and there were butterflies in my stomach. In my head I thought to myself “How am I going to get back to the shore?”
I felt the bars on the window, they were made of dry seaweed. Since the dry seaweed could be easily broken but my cellmate said that the city is too deep down from the human world and the guards can easily bring you back. He explained that if I escape I would have to get out of the bubble but the bubble was 50 m down so I wouldn’t have enough air. I was hopeless, but my cellmate agreed to help me escape. His name was Finn. I could see the beautiful underwater city through the window from the old terrifying prison. The sweet taste of freedom would soon be coming or would it.
His plan was to get something to defend ourselves or attack like a fork and then break the bars and jump out like a gymnast. He told me to go straight to the emergency oxygen tanks for fish that go above the water at the centre of the city. After that I can safely go back to the surface. We began the plan by breaking the bars, we quietly jumped out but the guards still caught us. I could hear their feet pounding towards us as we raced towards the city centre. Although we ran as fast as we could, one of them still caught up to us and slashed a sword at me and I thought fast I used my fork and blocked it.
We safely made it to the centre of the city. I got the oxygen tank. We looked outside. We saw crowds of guards. We instantly fled dodging all the guards like they were still trees. I put on the oxygen tank as Finn and I ran towards the big blue bubble that was bulging out. We made it. We escaped the bubble. We swam out. Finn left to his fish family and I glided upwards to the shore. As I got out the water I could see the shiny sunlight slowly fading away.
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WK2D1-BT
The link for my writing is here https://docs.google.com/document/d/117feZ_3fUMvHIlgx-bZxaBUa5KOLEFKhuhrTTRzqGOs/edit?usp=drivesdk
https://docs.google.com/document/d/117feZ_3fUMvHIlgx-bZxaBUa5KOLEFKhuhrTTRzqGOs/edit?usp=drivesdk
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