Write Creatively!

Instructions: 

Write something creative, whether it’s a piece of flash fiction, a limerick poem, a memoir, or a letter to a friend… You have total control!

 

Minimum: 250 words.

 

Some ideas for what to write: 

  • Flash fiction
  • Short story
  • Chapter of a book
  • Memoir
  • Creative nonfiction
  • Poem (haiku, ballad, sonnet, limerick, acrostic, etc.)

 

Need some prompts?

  • Imagine it is two hundred years from now, and someone is writing a history book about this year. What would they think about our lives? Are there any huge changes that have occurred?
  • Write a story about a day in the life of a household pet, it could be yours or someone else’s. What do they think about? What is their perspective on everyday things that humans do? 
  • Write a poem about your favorite part of nature. What does it look like? How does it make you feel?
  • Imagine you could control the weather where you lived. Would you leave it mostly the same, or would you change it a lot?
  • Write a story about someone who has a very strange family. What are they like? What do they think about their family’s strangeness?
  • Design a useless gadget and make an advertisement for it. 
  • You discover a strange door that you have never seen before near your house… 
  • Imagine you swapped bodies with someone you know, what would happen next? What chaos would it unleash? 
  • Write a story about a magical ring that can grant all your favorite things. Until…
  • Describe your favorite food, what’s special about it? 

Articles written by Students

“Winter Wonders” Candy Cane Miniature cane, Coated in many stripes of red and white, Tastes of mint and sugar.