Random Wikipedia Writing
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There is a page on Wikipedia, called Wikipedia:Random, where you can click the link and get brought to a random page on Wikipedia. For this assignment, go to the link and then click on the words Special:Random. Whatever page you get, somehow incorporate it into a short story involving whatever theme your class has. Feel free to use other Wikipedia pages and other programs such as Google Earth to research more about your page if you have no idea what it is or if you want to find more information for your story. After writing your story explain what page you got and your thought process in figuring out your story and incorporating your random page into it. See if your readers were able to figure out what random page you got! There's no maximum or minimum number of words or paragraphs, just make sure your story is longer than what you post on Twitter, so it counts as an assignment, not a Daily Create!
Here's the url for the Wikipedia page if the link isn't working-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random
Thumbnail image from here-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-en-big.png
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Totally Normal Teenage Boy Take 2, Electric Boogaloo
Originally, this assignment, Totally Normal Room of a Totally Normal Teenage Boy, was 948 words. I am a creative writing major, so this isn’t too shocking. When it comes to the written word, I have a lot to say. But, more often than not, revision in the writing words …
Don the Talking Dog
Don was an ordinary dog who loved to voice his opinions to his owners. He had no idea that his owners were able to understand him. Don figured out that he was able to say about ten words. In the early 1900s, he became quite the hit in America, and …
Inspiration can come from unexpected results.
Wow, ok, this was definitely a shorter wiki post than what I was expecting. My assignment was to write about a randomly-selected Wikipedia page.
The time, 1960. The place, Rome, Italy. Birgit Jensen had prepared for this event for a long time. The Olympics K-2 500 m sprint …
Eagles Nest Township
*** 3 stars
In the mid 1900s a group of friends set out on an adventure with the intent to travel to all of the states. They left from Florida and made it the whole way up to Maine. After Maine they headed west, passing through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. …
Totally Normal Room of a Totally Normal Teenage Boy
Written Assignment #1
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/random-wikipedia-writing/
There is a page on Wikipedia, called Wikipedia:Random, where you can click the link and get brought to a random page on Wikipedia. For this assignment, go to the link and then click on the words Special:Random. Whatever page you get, somehow incorporate it into …
From Harlem to stardom
It was a cool summers night in the big apple, but just like any other night there was always a reason to go to the club. A young man known to his family and friends as Frederick Anthony Jackson, recently came off a dismal spell of bad luck outside his …
“Revenge”-Elton John” -Christiana Meyers”
The gun is set and fires once more
A boy is left with a gaping sore
And in the cold grey night
He sees a black van run through the night and out of sight
He sits inside a cold, dark room
and sees the heads of his family’s tombs…
Nealcidion brachiale
I decided to attempt the random wikipedia article writing challenge and my article is
Nealcidion brachiale
or, a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. This is the whole article. I will now tie it to my character.
Irri was always afraid of bugs. When he was younger, he was …
A Bat for Free
It was a hot day in the beginning of June, 2015. Daniel Fields was nervous, he could feel his heart jumping up and down inside of his chest like he had just drank three Monster energy drinks. Two days prior he had been told that he was being pulled up …
Random Wikipedia Writing
Here’s the URL for this assignment-https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/random-wikipedia-writing/
and here’s the link for the Wikipedia page-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random
There is a page on Wikipedia, called Wikipedia:Random, where you can click the link and get brought to a random page on Wikipedia. I thought it would be fun to try to combine …
Totally Normal Teenage Boy Take 2, Electric Boogaloo
Originally, this assignment, Totally Normal Room of a Totally Normal Teenage Boy, was 948 words. I am a creative writing major, so this isn’t too shocking. When it comes to the written word, I have a lot to say. But, more often than not, revision in the writing words …
Don the Talking Dog
Don was an ordinary dog who loved to voice his opinions to his owners. He had no idea that his owners were able to understand him. Don figured out that he was able to say about ten words. In the early 1900s, he became quite the hit in America, and …
Inspiration can come from unexpected results.
Wow, ok, this was definitely a shorter wiki post than what I was expecting. My assignment was to write about a randomly-selected Wikipedia page.
The time, 1960. The place, Rome, Italy. Birgit Jensen had prepared for this event for a long time. The Olympics K-2 500 m sprint …
Eagles Nest Township
*** 3 stars
In the mid 1900s a group of friends set out on an adventure with the intent to travel to all of the states. They left from Florida and made it the whole way up to Maine. After Maine they headed west, passing through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. …
Totally Normal Room of a Totally Normal Teenage Boy
Written Assignment #1
https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/random-wikipedia-writing/
There is a page on Wikipedia, called Wikipedia:Random, where you can click the link and get brought to a random page on Wikipedia. For this assignment, go to the link and then click on the words Special:Random. Whatever page you get, somehow incorporate it into …
From Harlem to stardom
It was a cool summers night in the big apple, but just like any other night there was always a reason to go to the club. A young man known to his family and friends as Frederick Anthony Jackson, recently came off a dismal spell of bad luck outside his …
“Revenge”-Elton John” -Christiana Meyers”
The gun is set and fires once more
A boy is left with a gaping sore
And in the cold grey night
He sees a black van run through the night and out of sight
He sits inside a cold, dark room
and sees the heads of his family’s tombs…
Nealcidion brachiale
I decided to attempt the random wikipedia article writing challenge and my article is
Nealcidion brachiale
or, a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. This is the whole article. I will now tie it to my character.
Irri was always afraid of bugs. When he was younger, he was …
A Bat for Free
It was a hot day in the beginning of June, 2015. Daniel Fields was nervous, he could feel his heart jumping up and down inside of his chest like he had just drank three Monster energy drinks. Two days prior he had been told that he was being pulled up …
Random Wikipedia Writing
Here’s the URL for this assignment-https://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/random-wikipedia-writing/
and here’s the link for the Wikipedia page-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Random
There is a page on Wikipedia, called Wikipedia:Random, where you can click the link and get brought to a random page on Wikipedia. I thought it would be fun to try to combine …
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