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Writing Prompts: For the Right Brain
inspiring students to be recklessly creative when beginning new writing WritingFix believes this: No one writes with just the right side of his/her brain. The human brain is too complex and too cross-wired to ever believe that. We do believe this too: Ideas that spark a writer's inspiration can start on the right-side of the brain. And for that reason, all writing activities categorized on this page celebrate a right-brained approach to beginning a piece of writing. This page celebrates approaches that are serendipitous and random. This page celebrates approaches that are recklessly creative. Devote part of your journal or your writer's notebook to ideas produced by right-brained prompts. We hope the prompts below help launch a writing idea on the right side of your brain. Our right-brained prompts are sorted into the following categories. |
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WritingFix's Serendipitous Word Games will make you laugh, and if you keep clicking those buttons long enough, an idea for great writing will eventually jump at you. "I think a lot more decisions are made on serendipity than people think. Things come across their radar screens and they jump at them." --Jay W. Lorsch, Harvard Business School |
WritingFix's Story Starters allow you to keep clicking those buttons until the perfect end of that blank white page is achieved. "Once I've finally started my story, it just kind of goes. Sometimes it's really hard to start it though." --Allan S., 6th grade WritingFix user |
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WritingFix's Great Sentence Creators somehow always create interesting sentences to build a piece of writing around...no matter how many times a writer clicks the button. The trick is to know when to stop clicking and start writing. Use the created sentence as your story's first or last sentence...or hide it in your story and see if a friend can find it when the story is done. "All it usually takes to get me writing is one really good sentence."
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Invented by collaborating teachers at an inservice class, the Who/What/When/Where Games experiment with both adverbs and sentence fluency techniques. Move the whens and wheres until the sentence sounds pretty much perfect. Then use your perfect sentence as your story's first or last sentence...or hide it in your story and see if a friend can find it when the story is done. "Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two."
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Great prose is improved with the occasional poetic device slipped inside. All writers should try a little poetry every once in a while...no matter what they're writing. "Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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WritingFix's Alliterative Sparks have successfully inspired both poets and aspiring novelists. A little alliteration can lend itself nicely, eh Charles Churchill? "Who often, but without success, have prayed For apt Alliteration’s artful aid."
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WritingFix wants to build a collection of intriguing photographs that inspire writing. If you have a non-copyrighted digital photo that you'd like to let us post for others to be inspired, please send it to us a webmaster@writingfix.com. |
We are building more Visual Sparks for writers. Soon, we hope to house dozens of interactive prompts based on visual inspirations. "Is a picture worth a thousand words or ten thousand?"
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