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With thanks to the wonderful Adrian Mitchell. He should have been our Poet Laureate. This idea is for fun and for exploration. It is about being imaginative without reservation. It is about cutting the grass with attitude. Lending the Lawnmower

I’m working through and re-purposing creative writing resources from the past, also editing and updating to improve where this seems necessary. As these had been designed initially to focus on language features [when it was a requirement!!], this is retained because there is nothing wrong with that being a starting point for engagement, hopefully, andContinue reading “Personified”

This is a relatively straightforward creative writing task, focusing on being metaphoric in the choice and use of verbs in poetic instructions. It’s all in the detail/instructions contained in the following resource sheets: With Feelings

This set of creative writing ideas is taken from a text written some years ago – Crafting Poetry: Original Writing for GCSE [written coursework, still available for assessment at the time]. All of the ideas were built around poems by the writer Phil Bowen – with a few others – and his reading/performance of these.Continue reading “Handy Creative Writing Ideas”

This is a writing activity rather than a creative prompt. There is the potential for being creative and through copying the model poem Elk River Falls by Billy Collins. I haven’t altered this much at all from its original format [and its beginnings can be read here]. It is quite a complex task for students/writers,Continue reading “The Empathy of a Long Sentence”

Perhaps this is a spoof ‘creative’ writing resource. But the creation of the Sentence Hamburgers image is too good not to post, so the resources come with it. It isn’t really about creative writing, but it isn’t about secretarial writing. It is about having some fun embracing both. But hugging the first one tighter. ItContinue reading “Sentence Hamburgers Creation”

Here are creative writing resources on the theme of Light [NPD 2015]. This is a wonderfully simple, expansive theme. Everything is hopefully explained in the Teacher/Guidance notes. Anyone immediately drooling at the idea of a ‘subordinate clause’ poem is a serious cause for concern… PDF resources here [right-click to open]: 1 TeacherGuidance Notes 2 MyContinue reading “Let There Be Light Creation”

These creative writing resources are on the theme of Remember, and this was the NPD theme in 2014 I seem to recall… The resources are explained in the TeacherGuidance notes. The Word document [4] is a Remember poem template which can be downloaded and used to write on, though it is quite a simple template!Continue reading “To Be or Not To Be Creative: Can’t Remember?”

The theme for this collection of creative writing resources is The Future. This was the NPD theme in 2005, so this work originates in a relatively distant past which didn’t predict this future. The ideas and approaches are contained in one sheet of teacher/guidance notes, and then there are resource sheets illustrating the models forContinue reading “Future Creation”

This set of creative writing ideas took me back: to 2010 when the NPD theme was Home. I was also struck by the minimalism of my ideas/content then! Perhaps I was uncertain what the uptake would be; perhaps this is when I introduced List Poems as a key model for such resources. The logo forContinue reading “Creating a Home”