Writing Tips for Kids (continued)

Those are general things to help you grow as a writer. Here are some ideas that sound silly but might spark your creativity:

Write with a new pen, with chalk, colored markers, or crayons.

Write ON different things. Write a story on a computer, a poem on a leaf, a song on an old calendar page.

Copy writing you like. If there’s an author whose work you love, pick a topic you like and pretend you’re that author, writing about that topic. This is just a place to start—you'll move past it later.

Write somewhere new. Go sit on a park bench, lie down on a towel at the beach, curl up in a beanbag chair at the library…find new places to write.

Listen to music while you write. Different kinds of music might inspire you to write in new ways.

Flick your critic off your shoulder. If you hear a voice (suspiciously like your own voice) saying your writing stinks, flick that critic right off your shoulder…and keep writing!

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