Test Your Writing Skills

Try writing on any of these creative-writing topics and test your skills!

1. You gain the ability to receive everything that you think about. How do you use this newfound power to increase your money, your possessions, and your charity?

2. Write a list of 25 things you want to do in your life.


3. How old would you be if you didn't know your real age?


4. The leaves on all the trees have changed color and begun to fall all around town. How does this multi-colored landscape make you feel? Write about Autumn season.


5. Write about Coincidence


6. Write about Destiny


7. Write about Mystery


8. Write about Snowflakes


9. Write about the Sun


10. Your favorite pet is very ill. The vet says that he could survive up to one more year but in increasingly worse pain. He suggests putting the pet down. Describe what you do.


11. In a “Freaky Friday” situation, you have switched bodies with your mother or father. Describe your next 24 hours.


12. In a detailed manner, write about the day of and the day after your little brother or sister was born.


13. Your best friend in the world calls you and tells you a secret that changes your friendship forever. Describe the conversation and the aftermath.


14. You wake up to find yourself in your five-year-old body and back in time. How do you spend your first 24 hours in this situation?


15. While organizing your bookshelf, you notice a book called, “The Story of You.” You open it to find a description of your own life up to this point. As you flip farther, it details your existence until death. What do you do?


16. Pick the person you most want to see in the world right now. Write a monologue or a letter to that person and then continue the story.


17. Write a story from the perspective of your favorite childhood pet. Make sure to include details about how the pet sees you and your family.


18. It's hot. Sticky hot. You are sitting in your house or apartment with broken air conditioning and an outside temperature of 100 degrees F. Describe your day.


19. You are standing on the edge of the sand right before your feet are hitting the water. You stare out into the ocean. Write a story about the many thoughts going through your head.


20. You are standing on the edge of the sand right before your feet are hitting the water. You stare out into the ocean. Write a story about the many thoughts going through your head.