Writing Skills: Creative Writing

This is an open-ended creative writing activity. The chapter asks you to note the images that come immediately to mind for each word. One possible response is:

- cat — a furry pet, whiskers, tail, soft purring
- cupboard — a wooden storage box, shelves, clothes or utensils inside
- wall — a long boundary, bricks, painted surface, posters
- pond — still water, lotus, frogs, reflection of trees
- bird — wings, flying in the sky, chirping, nest

Different students may write different images because creative writing depends on imagination and personal experience.

This is also an open-ended creative writing activity. Here is one possible set of four lines of poetry starting with one of the given words:

The pond lay still beneath the evening sky,
Its silver surface caught each passing sigh.
A lonely bird flew home across the light,
And ripples faded softly into night.

Any original four lines or four sentences based on one of the given words is acceptable.