Pop Prompts Showtunes (High School Edition)
Pop Prompts Showtunes: High School Edition uses musical theater classics to awaken your creative spirit. A great creative tool for the classroom! A must-have for every teen writer.
Pop Prompts Showtunes: High School Edition uses musical theater classics to awaken your creative spirit. A great creative tool for the classroom! A must-have for every teen writer.
Pop Prompts Showtunes: High School Edition uses musical theater classics to awaken your creative spirit. A great creative tool for the classroom! A must-have for every teen writer.
Here’s how the book works:
Every writing prompt in this book was inspired by a specific showtune. Listen to the song at the top of the page before you write. Let the song set a tone for your writing session. Think about what the song means, think about what the songwriters want you to feel. Feel those emotions! Let the song fill you up. Then read the accompanying writing prompt and start working.
The book is organized by different types of musical theater song, from the “Opening Number” to “I Want” songs to the “11 O’Clock Number” all the way through the big Finale.
For every showtune, there are four writing prompts. Depending on what type of writing you want to explore, you’ll follow a different path through the book:
If you want to write songs, focus on the Musical Prompts. All you need to do is develop a song from each chapter and you’re well on your way to creating your own musical.
If you want to work on a book, play, or screenplay, look at the Fiction Prompts. They’ll take you on a journey through character and plot development, and help you find your voice. Do one prompt from each chapter and you’ll have the skeleton of your story in no time.
If you want to think deeply about yourself and the world around you, dive into the Journaling Prompts. These prompts pose questions that will take you on an introspective journey. You’ll discover how good it feels—and perhaps even how healing it can be—to pour out your emotions on the page.
If you’re a drama student, the Stagecraft Prompts give a framework for understanding how musicals function. These showtunes represent the development of musical theater over more than 100 years. Discover how to make drama through song. Listen, learn, and write.
You can deviate from your path. If you’re writing a musical but you want to do one of the fiction prompts, do it. If a fiction prompt inspires some self-reflection, get journaling! If one of the journaling prompts inspires a song for your musical, wonderful.
Wake up your inner theater geek and get creative. It’s time to make your writing pop.
