It’s the time of year for soups, apples, scary tales, and all things pumpkin. In honor of the autumnal season, here are four creative writing projects for Fall.
Retell a fairytale or myth
With this project, students will look closer at an existing story and give it a fresh new twist. Have them select a classic fairytale, myth, or legend and retell it in their own way by altering something. One of my favorite ways to do this is to set the story in a different time period or change the setting. Set the story in a middle or high school, for example, and you get great stories about Cinderella going to the prom or Hercules completing twelve difficult assignments to get out of detention.
Write a ghost story
Ghost stories can be scary, silly, or somewhere in between. The only rule is that they have something to do with ghosts. This project can be taken in many different directions, depending on strengths and interests of the students. Have them research local history to tell a story that blends real facts with fiction, or let them create their own characters that see ghosts or are ghosts themselves. Reading classic literary ghost stories like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow can also help inspire writing.
Make a literary cookbook
Many novels and stories include descriptions of delicious (or disgusting) food in order to draw the reader in. For this project, have a student focus on one book or a collection of books in the same genre and select several dishes to recreate. Once they pick a dish, they can search for a recipe that matches the description in a cookbook or online as a reference for their own writing. If there’s time and space, actually making the food can be a fun way to incorporate kitchen science and art into the project.
Explore NaNoWriMo
November is National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), a program that encourages authors to set a writing goal and complete most of a novel in a month. While an entire novel is an ambitious project for most folks, the website offers great resources for teens and adults on planning stories and getting started with a writing project. Plus you can set a goal, track progress, and earn badges on the website year round too
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