Creative Writing ideas?

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The Photograph?

A girl finds a picture of a man (holding her as a baby), she has never seen before, in her mothers things. She confronts her mother about it and finds out that the man is her biological father. She is furious at her mother for keeping it a secret from her. Then you could end it on her starting to search for her real father or how the relationship with the man she thought was her father goes?

Hope this sparks some ideas, good luck!

Well, using The Photograph title, maybe you can make a story of how things from a picture keep appearing into someones life.

Or the photo can foreshadow what's going to happen in the story.

Using My Terrifying Experience title, you can write a story of a guy seeing someone being shot by the guy's best friend. You can have a conflict of the guy having to go to court and having the pressure of whether to tell on his best friend or not.

Or you can write a story about a person being run over by a car on an intersection and having the guilt on the person's friend who pushed that someone onto road, pretending to be funny.

-the photograph - just find a picture maybe an old one and talk about it, let some memories flood you

-things were not how they appeared - think of a time when you were deceived, or witnessed someone else's deception

those all are really broad and easy to use topics, I am sure you have some friends or family who might be good for characters, I love creative writing. It has been so long since I did it last. It just kind of flows when I start, so I guess I can't really tell you how to do it. It's your project, good luck!

My Terrifying Experience would be a fun and easy one to do! I have an insane imagination that helps me a lot in English. Just think of the scariest thing that has ever happened to you and then exaggerate the crap out of it and add things. It doesn't have to be a true story does it? You could make up a wicked ghost story or one about you getting locked in a haunted house attraction and having all of the animatronics in it come alive and try to attack you... or something... camping experience? Camping I find is easy to write... all you need is like 2 or 3 characters to make a story so they don't get complex but you still get a sweet story!

The photograph: how about a guy of about your age who somehow slips in time. Maybe he goes to stay at his grandmothers large victorian house for the summer holidays. One day he is alone in the house and so he starts exploring the attic rooms. He enters the farthest room, a bedroom, and in it sees a teenage girl. They speak and realise that they have a lot in common and get on really well. She says she lives there but when he asks his gransmother she doesn't know about the room. He and gran go to look, but the doorway into the room is bricked up. Each time he is in the house alone he finds the room and visits the girl. There is no romance between them but they become very good friends. Before he has to return to his own home the girl gives him a photograph of herself to keep. He takes it and keeps it in his wardrobe.

Years later when he is married, his wife comes across the photograph and asks when it was taken. It is a photo of their 15 year old daughter.

I was in the same situation then I realised you need to think outside the box. Brainstorming also helps- eg for 'the photograph' just wonder about the title.

What is the photograph about? When was it taken? Who is in it? It is of your boyfriend/girlfriend? A pet that died? A family member? Perhaps a parent that divorced? Why are you looking at it?

From just brainstorming, you can come up with a story- for example from what I said above you could be a teenager who has just had their heart broken and is rambling about it to their diary, or an old granddad on his deathbed looking for one last time at his son's photo. It's up to you.

u got good topics there, I do not why you automaticaly got answers by looking at them. You gota get your most creative imaginative ideas out!! Ok, The importance of friends is good. start off by having a desription of what a'friend' is and give an defination of what you think friend is. then after that talk about your friends how they support you. then give examples. talk about how would you be without any of your friends, or family or anyone (anyone close to you could be classified as a friend. anyways in the end have an conclusion where you reflect all your essay and write what you think. Good luck and i hope this helps ya x

A good fall back reference is the development model. Taking a person, or a situation and developing it. That way, any of the above scenarios could be used, using the photograph or the regret etc as a point of reference.

My own feeling is that, the importance of friends gives the greatest scope of all the subjects.

Start with, when one is a junior, at home we do not appreciate that our parents are in fact our best and closest friends, then go on endlessly on the subject just let the ink flow. To find a meaningful ending, say one should never stop making friends, and that you know of a person who is 87 yrs old and STILL adding to his list of friends almost daily.

Go to it fellow, Sock it to them and good luck.

My writting ideas usually come from dreams. Eventually you will find your inspiration, no one can write for you, it is up to you. Just notice things, colours, things people say, the way things look, all the little details in life can give us inspiration. Also, looking at bright pictures or photographs are great for inspiration.