Entertaining Writing Activities

If you love to write, but feel stuck with writer's block, sometimes all you need is an entertaining writing activity to get your creative juices flowing. Writing activities are good practice, can help you see things in new and different ways, and can loosen up those rusty writing muscles. Choose a writing prompt, have fun and let your imagination run wild. You might be amazed at the results.

Things You'll Need

• Writing implements (pen and paper or computer)

Instructions

1. Cut a headline from your local newspaper, but don't read the article. Invent a story to go along with the headline. Make it as inventive and outlandish as possible.

2. Invite a few friends over and ask each participant to write an introduction to a story. The introductions are then passed to the person on the right, who continues the story. After a few times around the table, everybody writes an ending and the story is read out loud. To put a different spin on this activity, participants write a paragraph without reading the previous paragraphs.

3. Choose a familiar fairy tale and write a new ending for it. Forget about the traditional "happily ever after" story and turn the fairy tale into a mystery, a science fiction story, a comedy, a western or anything you like.

4. Cut pictures of five people out of a glossy magazine. Write a 300- to 400-word profile about each person. If you want to take it one step further, turn the people into characters and write a soap opera scene.

5. Write a story with 26 sentences. Begin the first sentence with 'A,' the second sentence with 'B' and the third sentence with 'C,' continuing through the alphabet.

References

• Lesson Planet
• Creative Writing Prompts
• Creative Writing Prompts