You might have many ideas of how to fill up this long vacation. Some of you may be planning to visit your relatives living in different areas or countries, while some of you may be planning to do stuff at home.
Whatever you do, keep in mind that don’t quit reading or writing completely because if you do so you may feel loaded when you get back to school.
Thus, to keep you on track we are going to explore a site that will hone your writing skills and as you have ample time you can exercise to enhance your creativity at Writingexcercises.co.uk — the site that provides (completely free) writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks.
Those who love graphics and colourful animation will find this site very boring as it has nothing more than plain text; so visually not appealing but if you are serious about sharpening your writing skills, the interface won’t hinder your imagination.
The website is simple, you have the main menu at the left with categories: Children’s section, Random first line, Plot generator, Random dialogue, Character generator, Random subject, Quick plot, Story title, Take three nouns, Random words, Town name generator, Famous film plots, Random character traits, Random job or occupation, Random names, and many more. If you click any of these a new page opens with the tab and an empty box that generates ideas for you. For instance, if you click ‘random personality traits’, the empty box will display random traits of the personality, like shy, sensitive, judgemental and if you find them uninteresting click the tab again you get a new series of words.
Basically the aim of these writing prompts is to spark off your imagination and creativity even if you are short of ideas you get ample ideas to start writing and once you get an idea you are never going to stop without completing your short story, drama, sitcom, etc.
Apart from that, the category ‘Children’s section’ focuses on children of primary/elementary school age. Therefore, the categories in the main menu are easy and based on age groups, for example: Story title, plot, characters, animal characters, first line for a story, the journey, etc.
The site is useful to find fresh ideas to write on, especially if one is going through a writer’s block!
Published in Dawn, Young World, June 11th, 2016
