Creative Writing Prompts Teens

What type of student would you like to teach and why? Name and describe a teacher who made a difference in your life.

What type of student would you like to teach and why? Name and describe a teacher who made a difference in your life.

You take your eyes off your brother for just a minute and you can't find him.

Write about the funniest thing that ever happened to you. If you had to escort a visitor from outer space for a 30-minute tour of your community, where would you begin and end? Be a grape that becomes a raisin: describe how it feels to shrink, to shrivel, to become dry and wrinkled. Your parents go into a store and tell you to watch your brother.

Write about two things that your family has taught you. Write about some of the things that you worry about.

How do you know someone loves you, even if he or she doesn't say it? Name one thing you like about yourself and why you like it.

Have you ever wished you were either older or younger?

Recall a time when you two shared a good laugh over something. Describe how it feels to be cold and firm and full of beautiful crystals but only to melt and lose your shape. You go to the store with your parents and baby brother. What if the use of robots in school becomes a workable reality? What would you pack in your suitcase if you could not go home again? Write about the time as a child you played in one of the following: treehouse, a cornfield, a construction site, a junkyard, an abandoned house or barn, a stream, a cemetery, a swamp, a pasture, railroad tracks. Did your mom or dad ever make you wear something you hated? Write about a time you were talked into something and you regretted it. Were you ever in a helicopter, limousine, racecar, hot-air balloon, submarine, or horse-drawn carriage? Were you ever accused of something that you didn't do? Were you ever in a fire, flood, tornado, or hurricane? More...cranberry - First crane berry, so named because the plant grows on a stalk that looks like a crane's neck. stipe - A stalk or stem of a seaweed, fungus, or fern frond. Describe someone who is a hero to you and explain why. Write about a time in your life when you struggled with a choice and made the right one. Imagine yourself in a different century and describe an average day in your life. Which character from a book would you most like to meet and why? Convince someone why music or art or computers are important in your life. Make that person understand what causes it and why it is bad. If you could do something that you never have done before, what would it be? You are to tell a person from a distant planet or from another era what pollution is. Begin a list of questions that you'd like to have answered. Or write about one thing you don't like about yourself. What do you consider your greatest accomplishment to date and why? Write one characteristic or habit about yourself that you like and describe it.