Creative People, Creative Stories (PM) by Tara Xanthopoulos https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0 Creative Writing Institute 2017 en-us 2017-07-12 16:53:12 UTC 2026-03-11 08:55:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Tic-Tacs https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579316 I opened my eyes to find there is nothing. Oops! I was definitely wrong! I see tic-tacs.  A full box actually. It was my favorite flavor, it was fresh mint. I ate some. It tasted a little bit, weird. Oh no! The flavor was actually cinnamon, this is disgusting! ]]> 2017-07-12 16:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579316 The story of my walk home from school https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579317 914 413 1819+ 914-318-8408
On my way home, I took a detour. Crap! I dropped my pen! My pen rolled away. Shoot! I followed it... AAAHHHHHH! My foot slipped, I fell into a puddle. Ugh. Damn it, now my butt is soaking wet again. When I arrived home, I ran to the toilet. UUUGGHH! I have diarrhea again. I scream, “MOM!!!”  
“What?” 
“Can you please get me some toilet paper!”
“I don’t think we have anymore left over”
“Why does this happen?”
“I’m sorry dear, we just ran out yesterday!”

]]> 2017-07-12 16:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579317 Elementary (prompt #1) https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579339 Billy walked to school on Wednesday. He grabbed the DOORKNOB to open the door to the classroom. He walked in wearing a MINT GREEN shirt and bright PINK shorts. The other kids LOVED his sense of fashion. Suddenly the class pet, a CAT BRUSHED past Billy. The cat was running away from Applejack, the school bully who wears a MASK. Applejack proceeded to bully Billy about his bright pink shorts, because Applejack could never reach that level of fashion. Billy then punched him straight in the eye. Applejack fell down LOW and started crying. It turned out he got a BLACK eye, but no one noticed because of his mask. Billy became the hero of the school. He was at an all time HIGH. He was given ONE large, WHITE, LIGHT trophy. He excelled in school after that day because of his very big BRAIN. But one day he broke his leg and had to take PILLS. People sympathized and he became even more popular. Now he is a child star.]]> 2017-07-12 16:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579339 Prompt #3 https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579412 He turned the key in the lock and opened the door. To his horror, he saw… A bunch o’ kittens, he’s allergic to kittens. They want hugs so badly, but he runs faster than ever before. He regrets that 50 piece mcnuggets he had as light mid morning snack.


]]> 2017-07-12 16:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579412 Why Pilot! Number prompt https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579426 My Family and I were in Copenhagen's Airport .Gosh! There were many delays?! Just fly already! It was 2 hours! I would have been home in bed sleeping earlier! I was starving. They could have given us food. Thank God. The plane finally took off in about 10 minutes.]]> 2017-07-12 16:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178579426 Free Write- Phone https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581655 Phone. I would love to see life without you. I look down to you but I feel as though I am looking up. Looking up at something so amazing that can carry all the things I need and all the texts with the people I love. But what happens if it gets taken away? What will I look down to that makes me feel as though I am looking up? How would I survive without seeing a glimpse of pixels that make me feel alive, but too much as though I can’t even fall asleep at night because of some scientific facts stating and my doctor saying, “turn off your phone 1 hour before you go to bed” because for some reason you have a harder time falling asleep and as much as I may try I always end up sitting on my bed on my phone till the very second until my tv turns down and my lights start to dim. But really isn't a phone like a mini tv? I mean they both are made of machinery that entertain you in a may you feel as though you need on a daily basis. But this isn’t about a tv or any of that, it’s about the PHONE. No specific phone though, but the PHONE. The phone you use to answer snapchats to text and call friends and family and the phone you use to make you feel good. But what if it really doesn't. You see in exactly 5 days I am going to sleepaway camp and I was excited, but I didn’t really think about the fact that I won’t have my phone with me. And I ask my friends that have gone to the sleepaway camp I’m going to with them how it feels without it and they told me you don’t even realize it's not there. Now as shocking as this sounds I heard something more astounding: That after camp ends, you won’t want your phone, and that it’s weird to have it back. Is it true that life without a phone can have light that we can look down to but we really think that we are looking up to what makes us entertained and lets us communicate with our friends and family. Can happiness exist without it? You see writing this seems a bit uneasy because it really reflects what life has come to, that we are obsessed with not only phones but electronics. So let this free write not only be about phones that we look down at but we really look up too for doing so much for us, but for us to put it down and enjoy every moment that we can get with REAL people in REAL life…  Phone, I would love to see a life without you. ]]> 2017-07-12 17:35:41 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581655 Darkness https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581754 Darkness, fear, to everyone they are one in the same. To be in the dark is to be alone to be in the unknown. Darkness is something different, it is comfortable, every safely navigated hallway in the middle of the night, every miss step, and miss conception. Every good night's rest is darkness. It fills an empty space like a gas, always expanding, filling voids until it becomes that void. Space is darkness, most of our universe is empty space, but it really isn’t, it always, always has something. Darkness. somewhere in the distance, the sun's rays finally lighting up somewhere new, fending of the darkness, breathing new life in emptiness Sitting in darkness you become something bigger than you are, your mass is no longer controlled by your body, you escape your fingertips, filling the volume of wherever you are. It lets you become something bigger than yourself. Maybe that’s why we fear it. I don’t know, am i the only one that thinks this way ]]> 2017-07-12 17:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581754 Free Write: Disney https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581803 The word Disney just popped into my mind. Walt Disney. He was the first to create a cartoon. A Mouse made him popular. His name was Mickey. Micky started in newspapers and then on TV where Walt made it come alive as a moving image. I don't think what else to say about Walt. Maybe that he started 2 theme parks with the help of his brother Roy DIsney. First they made Disneyland then Disney World. THe whole company started to rise even after both of them died. Disney channel came to life with so many shows for all kids of all ages to watch. Like kim possible and other shows that are new and old. What else did Walt Disney start? He started the evolution of cartoons which then evolved from other countries. DIsney never stopped. Then it forced with a company called Pixar. THey both made kids cartoons like Toy Story which is still going on in the present day. Walt Disney did many things what else did he do. Uhhhhhhh, he made many kids happy and his legacy is still carrying on till today. The theme parks are still as fun and as joyful as it first was in his day. The Disney company continues to evolve off his legacy but is not as good without him. Walt Disney was a true meaning and inspiration all people today. I mistakened before, he did not just inspire kids but adults too. He produced many quotes that people still live up to today like Dreams come true if you have the courage to pursue him. What else to say about him, uhhhhhhhh other studios like Universal Studios and other studios that produce cartoons and other movies got inspiration from his work. If Walt was never alive, life would not be like this today. As said before, Walt's LEgacy is still living on. People in his family are still working to live his legacy and make it better than before. In fact, I love Walt Disney Quotes just like the one above……..but Walt Disney had the heart of a child. HE was creative, and the class clown in his school. HE always used to get in trouble but still he never stopped. Even when he was in his late 50s and 60s, he still has the joy of a kid and went on the rides of the theme parks he created. His nieces and nephews and his grand- nephews and nieces still live up to him. I don't think i have anything else to say but I think the world would be better if he was still in it. The world would be more creative and maybe who knows he would get rid of all those bad people. I don't think that would have been true but i am just saying it could have. Everything explained shows that Walt was a good guy. Walt Disney died around in his late 60s. I don't think i have anything else to say maybe.,,,,,,, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  that he did not have any children or a wife but was always a  lose person to his family, always there for them and brought the happiness in it. 

]]> 2017-07-12 17:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581803 Free write- Words https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581804 Words. Words are in everything. Words, words, words. No matter what, words are in something. Words are almost impossible to avoid, no matter what. As humans, we need to socialize no matter what. Words. Even in this little sentence. We all talk. Not realizing we’re taking it advantage. Some can’t share words. Ideas. Such as. Some of us are lucky. We can talk, use words. Most have to keep their ideas, words, sentences in their mind, sometimes they wouldn’t be able to share, words, we take advantage, sometimes words are being used. Like we just use them, not realizing. Words, why do we use words so much? Is words the most thing we focus on? Or do we take not just words for advantage but everything else? Words are words. We are using them all the time. No matter what. In our mind we think. Sometimes when we dream, characters say words. Words are impossible to avoid. Almost impossible.


]]> 2017-07-12 17:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581804 Free Writing https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581833 Free writing, it isn’t really free is it? Because we still have to go over it we still need to correct it we still need to make sure that the spelling, the grammar, the form of the phrase has to be perfect. but what does it mean to be perfect? does it mean that you have to perfect in someone else’s point of view? For skiing a friend of mine said I needed lesson because I wasn’t perfect, my mom said I needed lesson because I wasn’t perfect. My dad said I needed lessons because I wasn’t perfect. Yet; I’m better that my friend, I’m faster that my friend, I’m faster than my mom, I’m still not faster than my dad. But that doesn’t matter because to me, I am perfect, and I don’t care what other people think of my skiing. I don’t care what people think about me, or my running, or my dancing, because to me? I’m perfect. So when I write and people say “That story sucks” or, “maybe you should change this,” it tells me, it isn’t really free writing if people tell you what to do, if the correct your writing. Because freedom means to have the power or right to act, speak or think as one wants, without hindrance or restraint. but it isn’t free writing if the corrections or comments or suggestions restrain you, or the annoyance or correction it later or while you’re writing because it isn’t free writing. I simply writing. I bet that even after reading this, people will still say that you’re not perfect, the way you do this isn’t perfect nothing will ever be perfect to the people around us, there will always be something wrong or something that they don’t like in this world. And there’s nothing we can do about that, because as long as we are perfection our own eyes, it doesn’t matter what others think about us. I can’t say that we are all perfect because we are not. but as long as we try to that level, if we keep trying to reach the level of perfect eventually, we might make it.]]> 2017-07-12 17:37:59 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581833 Free Write https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581911 time travel is quite interesting. I mean like with one little slip up there is a huge change in history or timed. I watch this show and they explain that time isn’t a straight line but a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. and that it’s fluid and I think that that might cause some problems. first of all if someone ‘bad’ got hold of such power that  their would be a rip in time and space. I know it is just a show. there are some problems with time machines, like the amount of energy needed for such a thing is all wrong, they would need dark matter/dark energy which would burn the controller of the matcheine. but I digress it is a great show


]]> 2017-07-12 17:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581911 The Weeknd (singer) https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581968 The weeknd real name is Abel Tesfaye and is my favorite singer. I went to his concert on June 3 and it was nice Black was the first opening act then it was Belly Then the Rae sremmurd brothers. My favorite song is The Hills. It’s his last song which was at 3:40 am or later . I went with my sister and mom and friend . I got A LOT of clothe with The Weeknd's face on it. He has a whole album of rappers and R&B artists making songs for him like Lil Uzi Vert, ect. His sign is XO . I continue buying clothe from him because he is my idol and his songs inspire me because he excplains that no one will bring him down and teach me that with really creative lyrics that he wrote from his experiance since he ran away he wrote a song called The Fall whick might be in my top 3.I might be his biggest fan girl  ever.I’ll never regret listening to him .


]]> 2017-07-12 17:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581968 Free Write: Races https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581977 Races. I like to race. I do swimming and cross country and track. I used to play baseball and soccer, but I didn’t like soccer, and I wasn’t good at baseball. But I was good at races. Races are fun. There are rewards, and the feel of winning. Winning. Winning created a feel of good. Winning is good. People like to win. But isn’t everything a race? If I still played baseball, wouldn’t I just be racing to be the better player. And in that race is everyone else. Is life a race? No. It isn’t. Life should be enjoyed. And races are a way to enjoy life. But races shouldn’t encompass your life. And there are people who let races take over. They find a way to turn everything to a competition. “I broke my leg.” “Oh really? I broke my rib cage once!”]]> 2017-07-12 17:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178581977 Chromebooks, slo https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178582054 Chromebooks, are slow, but convenient, I have a chromebook, in my hand , I also have one at home, and may brother begs my mom for one every day. I use mine at home for some games, or some videos, Youtube, I watch videos on youtube. I watch all kinds of videos, game videos, sports videos and even educational videos, the videos never end, with over 300 hours of videos uploaded every minute. Minute there are ,1440 minutes in a day, that is a lot of minutes. So little yet so much can happen in a minute. Another one just passed, so many of them. 


]]> 2017-07-12 17:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178582054 Chairs https://padlet.com/xanthopoulost/9awdj4yf2dc0/wish/178582120 What are chairs how did they even come to be, did someone just suddenly get tired of sitting on the floor or standing that they invented what if we didn't have chairs would our generation today stand up every where would tables come up to our armpits would we still know what sitting even means most of our society today is based on sitting you sit in airplane you sit on rollercoaster you sit at desks you sit on your phone you sit to watch tv you sit when you get tired you sit while you work but what if there were no chairs would people stand in meetings would there even be meetings without any chairs or would people travel and explore the world more  are chairs the reason that we stare at screens all day waiting for 100 likes on a picture that we posted five seconds ago would we exercise more if there was the comfort of a chair would there be less obesity if people were forced to get up and walk around because without chairs there would be no cars without chairs there would be no bikes so would people be forced to commute using their bodies as transport would be travel by foot did chairs come from horses if in the olden days people got around by horses on which you sit on is that where chairs came from   Would there be less hunger and debt in the world if chairs no longer exist because think about if people didn't spend money on chairs wouldn't it help them be able to give money to the poor and food and medicine to those in need. Wouldn't people have better posture if there were no chairs causing them to hunch  without chairs would there be less people with spinal illnesses like scoliosis..  Without chairs though would people be more tired and less able to focus would students not be able to last through a full day of school if they had to stand up but on the other hand wouldn't it allow more time for school if they didn't need to go out and stretch their legs if they were already stretching their legs while working would there be more runners for the olympics would people stand in stadiums while watching the “big game” if there were no chairs couldn't they exercise then at the same time as watching the game would there be more foot problems though if people stood to much bot taking the weight off their feet all day but if we had no chairs would there be beds because surely if beds came first the chairs would automatically come next because people sit on their beds at time or would there have to be no beds in this case for theirs to be no chairs  where did the word hair even come from the the closest relationship i can think of is the word hair but you can't sit on hair  so where did this word come from why those five specific letters to from a word that means an object in which you sit on. If chairs didn't exist would there be more depression caused by stress if people didn't have a way to relax and relieve their feet what would it be like if there were no chairs? 

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