15-sentence portrait

This week you must complete the 15-Sentence Portrait for your Weekly Writing #5.


You will write a portrait, following specific directions.


Following these prompts keeps you from directing your observations in familiar, perhaps predictable, ways.


You will not mention the topic in your writing.



For a title, choose an emotion or a color that represents the topic.


Sentence 1:  Choose one (1) of the following and complete the sentence:


     I stand there...


     No one is here...


     In this (memory, photography, dream, or whatever)...


     I think sometimes...


     We had been...


After your first sentence, build a portrait, writing the sentences according to the following directions:


Sentence 2:  Write a sentence with a color in it


Sentence 3:  Write a sentence with a part of the body in it (school appropriate)


Sentence 4:  Write a sentence with a simile


Sentence 5:  Write a sentence with over twenty-five words


Sentence 6:  Write a sentence the contains less than eight words


Sentence 7:  Write a sentence with a piece of clothing in it


Sentence 8:  Write a sentence with a wish in it


Sentence 9:  Write a sentence with an animal in it


Sentence 10:  Write a sentence in which three (3) or more words alliterate


Sentence 11:  Write a sentence with two (2) commas in it


Sentence 12:  Write a sentence with a smell or a color in it


Sentence 13:  Write a sentence with a metaphor


Sentence 14:  Write a sentence with a thought that could carry an exclamation point (but don't use an
                       exclamation point


Sentence 15:  Write a sentence with a thought to end this portrait that uses the word or words you
                       chose for a title