Explore the world at each end of the day - when things don't look quite the same as in broad daylight. How does that make you feel? Five...

by Joy D Matthews Witten in class in response to a prompt in the Writing Lesson Plan: Night and Day If you want to see them, you must be...

There’s a Halloween do in our Village Hall .I’m dressed up all witchy, no trouble at all! I’ve dyed my hair black, and I’ve greased up my...

This was a class exercise - we were asked to produce 5 -line verses with a single rhyme scheme in each. Silly, but fun! Oh God, is it...

This story was inspired by Picasso's Girl With A Mirror                                                     It’s a beautiful room, not...

Everyone has their own idea about how to run a creative writing group. These are just some of my ideas from ten years of running such a...

I wonder what tempts you - chocolate, a sneaky spend at the shops, ditching the chores for a day, or something much naughtier that that!...

by Elodie Foray (written in response to a Writing Lesson Pictures prompt - pictures of mountains) The rabbits had met that morning,...

(written in response to a Writing Class prompt) Your last look for ever will pursue me though I sleep my soul crackles into life at the...

( Devised from a Writing Class prompt ) He was too old for me, by years Hair sprouted from his nose and ears His teeth were yellow, his...

... all about plans — how they are made, whether they work out, or they don’t. Five minutes free writing on the topic. No readback....

Five minutes free writing on the topic; no readback Exercise 1 - 20 minutes Prompt Write about life during a drought. Readback and...

I suggest that you start with five minutes free writing, using the title as your theme. This is NOT read out to the class. It develops...

Five minutes free writing on the topic. No readback Exercise 1 20 minutes Start your piece with a student discovering a hidden room in a...