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Creative writing prompts
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Writing prompts Writing prompts are ideas that help writers overcome writer's block. Writers can take these ideas and build on them.
Teachers can also give their students writing prompts to help them increase their creative writing skills.
When you are ready to start gathering ideas for writing prompts, you need to purchase a spiral notebook or 3x5 ruled cards and file box to keep your writing prompts in a place where you won't lose them. You want them handy to use when you are ready to write a story.
Now, you will learn how to gather ideas. Gathering writing prompt ideas You can create writing prompts from any area of your life, any subject, or just about anything.
For example if you ask questions about your life, you can come up with several writing prompts.
When you were a child, what was your first house like? Where did you live?
Where did you go on your first vacation?
What was your first boyfriend like?
Where did you go to school and what was it like?
These are just a few ideas to help you get started in creating writing prompts about your life.
Once you make a list of your ideas, you can start writing an article, short story, or book. Creating the writing prompts Now that you have gathered some ideas for writing prompts, you can begin creating them.
For example, you decided to write about a teacher you admired.
Here are some questions to think about:
Who was your first teacher? What did you admire about him or her? What did you learn?
Writing prompt: My teacher was _________________, and I admired ____________
because ___________ helped me to learn ___________________________________.
From that sentence, you can continue writing about the teacher. Editing your writing prompt After you have written your writing prompt, you can expand on it and write a short story, article, or book.
After that, you will need to go back through your paper and check for spelling, grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, paragraph structure.
Then, you can rewrite your paper and come up with some more writing prompts.
You need to remember to keep a file or spiral notebook of your writing prompts whenever they come to you because you never know when you might want to add more to your writing prompt.
Also, remember to edit your work after you have finished writing the article, story, or book.
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Things Needed Notebook paper or spiral notebook You also might want to use 3x5 ruled cards so you can write writing prompts on each one and file them in a box Pens White Outs Computer and printer Tips & Warnings  It would be handy if you kept a spiral notebook for your writing prompts. You could also use 3x5 cards for your writing prompts and file them in a file box If you kept them in one place, you have them ready when you need them.
Story Starter Picture Cubes Jumpstart the Writing Process
WEBSITE: www.teachertube.com Picture cubes from Learning Resources make great prompts during brainstorming. For more information visit http product/teachers /shopbysubject/ languagearts/producttype/ manipulatives/ softfoamstorystarterpicture cubes.do?codettube
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