Creative Writing Activities
This page offers some ideas, reminders, tips, and activities on creative writing. Creative writing is sometimes referred to as "imaginative writing," which means you use your imagination and take in the different and multiple things going on around you as inspiration for writing about the world around you, maybe worlds you invent, and even about yourself.
Click on each button tab below to learn more about a specific element of creative writing. These elements are often used in writing forms (genres) like novels, short stories, personal essays and memoirs, poetry, drama (plays), graphic novels, and more. What's your favorite form of writing? Favorite genre?
Click on each button tab below to learn more about a specific element of creative writing. These elements are often used in writing forms (genres) like novels, short stories, personal essays and memoirs, poetry, drama (plays), graphic novels, and more. What's your favorite form of writing? Favorite genre?
Writing Prompts & Hands-on Activities
Below are some fun writing prompts to get you started on a personal story or a made-up story.
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HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
Click on the button tabs below for instructions on how to create zines, "exquisite corpse" poems, and more.
General Creative Writing Tutorials
Tips for Teen Writers
Below are some tips for teen writers from teen writers.
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