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01 July 2025

Posted by Harley Truslove

Shape Writing

We were back at the MAST today, and shapes were the theme of the evening! Ali gave our writers three shapes in which they could write the beginning, middle, and end of a story: a square, a spiral, and a triangle. The challenge was to make the story they were writing relevant to the shape! Someone could triangulate their location, for example, or find a situation spiralling out of control. Our writers came up with the following stories:


A woman woke to find herself trapped within a cold, smooth box - a “windowless infinite warehouse”. She felt her situation spiral as she realised she had no memories of who she was or why she was there, but she managed to escape and found herself in a field as a rescue helicopter had triangulated her position.


Two friends drove their car into a field of cows and were boxed in. They tried to triangulate their way out, one friend approaching a cow to try and shoo it away, as the other noticed that something on her phone had arrived. A UFO abducted the cow from the field, sending it spiralling into the air.


Next week is our final week before the summer holiday, and we will be closing the term by looking at classic detective stories, a genre our writers thoroughly enjoy!

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