A Right-Brained Writing Prompt from WritingFix
Focus Trait: IDEA DEVELOPMENT Skill: SHARPENING DETAILS

Three Serendipitous
Nouns

This writing prompt generator was one of the first twenty-one interactive word games presented at the original WritingFix in-service sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project.

Student Writer Instructions:

A noun is a person, place, or thing. This prompt will give you a random one of each.

Press the buttons below until you have three nouns you can fit into one story. Use your three nouns to write a scene where those nouns are important items in your story. You do not have to write an entire story--just a scene from one is enough--unless you're really inspired to go all the way.

As you choose your three nouns, try hard to choose three that you don't think anyone has ever put together in a story before. Be UNIQUE as your prepare to write your story...and have fun.

Interactive Choices for Writing:

If you're struggling to start, click the buttons below for some ideas that might inspire you to launch your piece of writing.

Keep clicking the three buttons until you find a person, place, and thing that you might put together in an interesting story.

If putting a descriptive adjective in front of any of your nouns helps, then do that! A broken flashlight might be more interesting to you than just an ordinary flashlight, for example.

When you have your person, place, and thing selected, write them down somewhere safe so you can put them together in a paragraph later on.

Teacher Resources to use with this prompt:

Rough draft sheet with idea development checklist embedded on second page.
Sheet of 6 Idea Development Revision Post-Its for students to use to respond to each other's rough draft writing. (Click here to visit WritingFix's Post-It page)

Three Serendipitous Nouns

This writing prompt generator was one of the first twenty-one interactive word games presented at the original WritingFix in-service sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project.

Student Writer Instructions:

Interactive Choices for Writing:

Three Serendipitous
Nouns