8 Writing Prompts for students interested in creative writing

1. By James DuPont

2. Table of Contents
• Prompt 1 • Prompt 6
• Prompt 2 • Prompt 7
• Prompt 3 • Prompt 8
• Prompt 4
WORKS CITED PAGE
• Prompt 5

3. Prompt #1:
It's Fall!
 For today's prompt write about a fall
memory. You can select your memories
about starting school or the endless hours
your parents made you rake leaves. You
can write about a specific fall day that has
always stuck with you, or simply your
general feelings about the season.

4. • It is nice to have a collection of characters put away for a rainy day. Today
take some time to make a diverse list of six to ten characters. Depending
on what you will use the characters for, you can fill them out as much as
you want. If you like you can describe their speech, mode of dress, or
some element that might affect they way interact with others.
Or come up
Try coming up with a with the villain
character in a mystery
novel such as a detective

5. Prompt #3:
This prompt is about discoveries, inspiration and
invention. For today's prompt, write about
discoveries. Think of a "eureka" moment you've had
- a time when you had a great idea, discovered the
answer to something, or solved a mystery.

6. Prompt # 4:
Essays Don’t Have to be Boring!
• For today’s prompt, choose a topic that is important,
meaningful or exciting to you. This can be an account of
something that happened to you when you were younger, a
serious highlight of an issue in your community, or simply
your thoughts on the last three albums by your favorite band.
Keep it under two pages.

7. Prompt # 5:
Sweet Dreams
For this prompt, you have two choices.
One, you can keep a dream journal for a
whole week. Two, you can choose a dream
you've had, one that is strong in your
memory, and
write it out as a story.

8. Prompt #6:
Today you’re going to write about your name.
First of all, what does it mean? How you feel
about your name? Did you always like it?
Have you changed it, or would you? Did you
get teased for your name?
Write about your last name too if you like.

9. Prompt #7:
You have a couple options for poetry:
• Write an ugly poem
• Write a poem about a fear you have
• Write a 100 line poem about your
bedroom

10. • Write a travel
memoir. In less
than two pages,
describe a trip
you took. Include
personal stories
from you
experience along
with details about
the place, people
and challenges
you encountered.

11. Works Cited
• Slide 8:
http://theredbrickchurch.org/wp-
content/uploads/2012/07/name-tag1.jpg
• Slide 9:
http://www.shelbytwplib.org/images/poetry.jpg
• Slide 10:
http://svalaya.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/To-
Have-Successful-Traveling.jpg
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