Introductory Creative Writing Selections

Describe what it’s like to be inside a tornado

Jerald C., 9 ,ISF

It felt like an earthquake was happening. We heard wind sounds. I saw cars falling down from the sky. I thought that I was trapped in jail. I also thought that I was surrounded by ghosts.

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Pretend you are a painting in a new art gallery:

Kyle W. 9 ,GSIS

Day 1: I talk to a picture of a banana called Fred. At 12:00 in the afternoon I see loads of people. 200,000 people come to look at me. Soon I am moved to a large table where the best paintings are. Then I see a tall man with a moustache and a bag that says “VIP”. He looks at me and puts a golden badge on me. The badge says, “Best Painting in the World!”

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Create a town and describe a very strange building that is there:

Dorothy L., 8, AIS

The building is fun. It has juice in the pool and an ice rink filled with ice cream. If you turn the light on, sweets and fruits come out, so if I am hungry I can go in the building.

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 Pretend you are a taxi driver. How do you feel when you go to work?

Nok Yan C., 9, DGKS

Oh! 6:00 a.m., it’s time to go to work. I don’t brush my teeth, and I don’t change pajamas. I will be late. I jump into my taxi and drive it to Po Lam

When one of your passengers leaves the taxi, he does something unexpected. What does he do?

I notice that the man steals an old woman’s purse and her cheap telephone. I want to use my eyes to talk to her, but she’s blind.

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You work on a movie set and discover that all the film is missing! What do you do?

Andrew H., 8, HKIS

I start asking what happened. An assistant says, “Someone was in there and his name was Daniel Crook.” I asked him to take me to him. I found him. He was a robber! I got a metal badge for catching the crook. The police said, “That he was a professional crook on the loose. His wife was too. She was a fake actress. The real one is safe! Thanks to you we don’t’ have to catch them.”

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You are a mermaid who learns that humans do not think you exist. Why do this think this?

Jiawen W. 8, St. Stephen’s Primary

People don’t think we are real because Hans Christian Andersen wrote the story The Little Mermaid and it is just a story, it is not real.