Creative Writing How creative imaginative and interesting can

Creative Writing How creative, imaginative and interesting can you be in just 10 minutes? The rules are simple: Choose a task and write for 10 minutes in any way you like. You can write a short story, a poem, a diary entry, a letter, a series of text messages … the choice is yours. (Once the ten minutes are up, you might choose to carry on writing, draw something to go along with what you have written or do the follow 0 on tasks. )

Creative Writing 1. A fifth season 2. Transport 3. What is it? 4. Talking flowers 5. Superhero 6. Rainbow 7. Tastes delicious? 8. Who’s sitting in my chair? 9. New sport 10. Stuck fast 11. If shoes could talk 12. A fishy tale 13. If walls had ears 14. Flight of fancy 15. What does it do? 16. Bus to the future 17. What is it? 18. Where I feel safe 19. New clothes 20. In someone else’s shoes 21. New medicine 22. Ghostly chat 23. Alien encounter 24. A new country 25. Derelict house 26. Weather 27. Nightmare? 28. Animal magic 29. Camping trip 30. Who lives here? 31. Buried treasure 32. Shark attack 33. Sock mystery 34. What is it? 35. A new job 36. A dog’s life 37. Rain 38. Happiness 39. Inanimate conversation 40. New drink

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a fifth season. Give it a name and then describe it. (Once your ten minutes are up, why not design a page or two for a calendar featuring pictures of your new season. ) 1 Back to Contents

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a brand new mode of transport and describe how it works. (Once your ten minutes are up, you might like to draw a picture of your invention and label its interesting features. ) 2 Back to Contents

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: What is it? Where are you? Are you in danger? Back to Contents 3

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE What did the bee and INTERESTING response say to the flower? Hello, honey. to the following: If flowers could talk, what would they say? (Once your ten minutes are up, why not design a flower of your own or create a bouquet of your own flowers. ) Back to Contents 4

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Create your own superhero. (Once your ten minutes are up, you might like to create your own superhero comic or create a super villain for your superhero to defeat. ) Back to Contents 5

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: How would a rainbow feel if you could touch it? OR Write about a quest to find gold at the end of a rainbow. Back to Contents 6

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a new food and describe how it tastes. (Once your ten minutes are up, design a menu that includes the new dish/food you have created OR design a poster advertising it. ) Back to Contents 7

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Describe the person who sits in this chair. (You might like to write a script of the conversation you have with the person you have described OR write a story involving this person. ) Back to Contents 8

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a new sport and explain how to play it. (Once your 10 minutes are up, you might like to draw some pictures to go with the rules. How would you persuade the Olympic Committee to include your new sport in the Olympics? ) Back to Contents 9

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Explain how this man got stuck in the wall. Back to Contents 10

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: If your shoes could talk, what would they say to you? (Once the ten minutes are up, why not design some trainers or shoes of your own. ) Back to Contents 11

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: You discover a new species of fish. Describe it and how you came to find it. (Once the 10 minutes are up, draw and label your fish. As the person who discovered it, you get to name it. What will you call it? ) Back to Contents 12

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: If these walls had ears, what stories would they have to tell? (Once the 10 minutes are up, you might like to carry on writing about the people who once lived behind these walls. ) Back to Contents 13

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: In your garden you discover a bird no one has ever seen before. Describe it and explain where it has come from. (Once the 10 minutes are up, draw and label your bird. As the person who discovered it, you get to name it. What will you call it? Back to Contents 14

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Imagine what this machine is used for. What would happen if it had a mind of its own? (If you have not already done so, after 10 minutes are up Back to Contents 15

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: You get on the bus as normal but when you step off the bus you find yourself in the year 2933. Describe what you see. (When the 10 minutes are up, either write about your new life in this future world or write the story of how you get back to your own time. ) Back to Contents 16

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: You look out of the window and see this. What is it? What happens next? Back to Contents 17

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Describe where you feel safest and explain why you feel this way. Back to Contents 18

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Design a new item of clothing. Think of sustainable materials you might use in its creation. (Once your ten minutes are up, you might like to draw your new clothing range. ) Back to Contents 19

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Where have these feet been today? Back to Contents 20

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a new medicine, what does it cure and how? Back to Contents 21

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: The local newspaper sends you to interview a ghost. Write an account of your conversation or the article that appears in the newspaper. Back to Contents 22

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: An alien lands in a spaceship. Describe what it looks like and write the story of what happens. (You might like to create a graphic novel of the alien’s adventures or draw a picture of the alien. ) Back to Contents 23

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: You have discovered a new country. What is it like? If you were to become its ruler, what would you do next? Back to Contents 24

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Who lives or lived in this house? Back to Contents 25

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a new type of weather and describe it. Back to Contents 26

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: You go out walking one night and see this in the distance. Write about what happens next. Remember to describe how you feel. Back to Contents 27

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Out on a walk you come across an animal (not a bird or fish) that no one has ever seen before. Describe it and explain where it has come from. Back to Contents (Once the 10 minutes are up, draw and label your animal. As the person who discovered it, you get to name it. What will you call 28 it? )

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: You camp out one night and wake up to this view. Describe how you feel and go on to write about what happens next. 29 Back to Contents

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: What is this? Who or what might you find inside? Back to Contents 30

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Either write the story of how the treasure came to be buried or of how it was discovered. (Once the ten minutes are up, why not create your own treasure map. You can stain it with cold tea or coffee to make it look old. ) Back to Contents 31

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Write about what happened from the shark’s point of view. Back to Contents 32

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: When socks disappear, where do they go? (No matter how careful you are, at some point you will lose one of your socks and, before you know it, you could have lots of single, unmatched socks in your drawers. Here’s your chance to solve the mystery of those missing socks. ) Back to Contents 33

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: What is this? What does it do? What would happen if it developed a mind of its own? Back to Contents 34

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a new job. What do you have to do and why? Back to Contents 35

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: What is the dog thinking? Back to Contents 36

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: If rain was a person, what sort of person would it be? Back to Contents 37

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: What makes you happy? Write about the things that make you happy or about a time when you were really happy. (When the 10 minutes are up, think of things you could recommend that other people might do to help them feel better when they are sad or worried. You could put your ideas on Teams. ) Back to Contents 38

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Choose any two items (not people) in the room and write a conversation between them. (You could use direct speech, write a play script, or create a comic strip. ) Back to Contents 39

How creative can you be Take 10 minutes to write a CREATIVE, IMAGINATIVE and INTERESTING response to the following: Invent a new drink. What are the ingredients? Describe how it tastes. (When the 10 minutes are up, you might like to design a poster advertising your new drink. ) Back to Contents 40