Weekend Writing: A Year-Long Trip

If you could take three people with you on a year-long trip around the world (all expenses paid, of course) who would they be and why?

Where would you go?

Weekend Writing: Childhood Literacy

Think back to your childhood. List as many literacy (reading and writing) moments you can think of. Choose one moment and tell a story about it.

Weekend Writing: Last Reading

What is the last thing you read? It could be a sign or a book or an assignment sheet. How will that reading affect your life? Or will it not?

Alternative: Imagine that the last thing that you read is going to change the direction of your life forever. Tell that story.

Weekend Writing: "Do Over"

If you had one "do over" for your life, what would it be? Explain.

Weekend Writing: To Exaggerate a Tale

Think about an incident that happened to you and exaggerate in the telling. Make it into a tall tale.

Weekend Writing: Influential Person

Write about the person who has had the most influence on the person you are today.

How could you thank them?

Weekend Writing: If I Could Change...

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

(If you can't think of anything you would change, explain how you achieved perfection.)

Weekend Writing: Food Metaphor

This book [or insert object] is like ________ (food) because ____________.

Weekend Writing: If I Were...

If I were the teacher/student, I would change_____ but I would keep ______ the same. Explain.

Weekend Writing: April Fools

Yesterday was April Fools Day.
Write a story in which the main character is fooled by someone or something.

Bonus points for including a coffee table, a Christmas tree, and a talking bird.

Weekend Writing: Super Power

Imagine that you could receive one super power. What would yours be and why?

Weekend Writing: Home Alone

I was home alone and the house was so quiet until...

Weekend Writing: To Teach ______

I taught someone to __________.  From that I learned __________.

Weekend Writing: To Live Inside a Book

If you could live inside a book as any character, what book and what character would you choose? Explain.

Weekend Writing: An Opposite Love Story

Go to the 16 Personalities website and pick two opposite personality types. Read their section on romantic relationships and write a funny story about when the two of them knew they were in love.

Weekend Writing Prompts: A Book About You

If someone wrote a book about you, what would it be called? What genre would it be? Explain.

Weekend Writing Prompt: Bumper Sticker

Create your own bumper sticker for life. Explain.

Challenge: Create a bumper sticker for your favorite book character.

Weekend Writing Prompt: Favorite Place

Where is your favorite place in the world? List 5 things you are thankful for about that place. Choose one thing from your list and write a story or a poem that captures that gratitude without explicitly naming that listed item.

Weekend Writing Prompt: Personified Fear

What are you afraid of? Personify the fear. Write either a short poem or a narrative snapshot describing your personified fear's weakness.

Weekend Writing Prompt: What's in a Digital Name?

Welcome to the weekend!  Welcome to weekend writing!

Today's writing challenge:

Nonfiction: What names have you been known by online? Any quirky email addresses from your youth? Is there a story behind the name? How have you changed since that name?

OR

Fiction: Create a quirky screen name. Have that name be significant in a short story.