Starting+Activities

What Will I Write About?
Where do I start? What will I write about? What ideas and themes will I explore in my writing?

The following video presents a series of snaphots of people and events that might start your thinking. Can you relate to any of the experiences shown in the clip? Check it out, it just might start you thinking and inspire you!

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More Activities to Get you Started

 * Write for 60 secs without stopping; (11)
 * Create a self-portrait.
 * 1) Write about yourself using all five senses.
 * 2) Give your self-portrait to another student who identifies the bit/s which most interest them.
 * 3) The kid then develops this into a short narrative.


 * Write: 'I remember’ and see what comes out.
 * Give students a word, phrase or object (from a genre) and they write about it for 60 secs.
 * Retell a story from somewhere; or could be retell a story in another genre; turn a romance into a crime, or a sci-fi, etc.
 * Students draw a sentence out of the hat then use each word as the beginning of a new sentence.