Welcome to our Write in the Head toolbox. Here you will find a wide range of different creative reading and writing exercises, for people of all abilities and levels of experience.
There are several different ways you can navigate the site. You can have a go at one of our different exercises types. You can pick a theme and explore a set of linked exercises as part of a longer creative journey. Or you can choose to practice a particular skill.
Navigate by exercise type
Get out your pen and start scribbling on existing work – Blackout poems are great exercises to try if you’ve never done any creative writing.
Level: First steps
Duration: Ten minutes
Reading a poem aloud is a great way to appreciate it – and rebuild your language skills.
Level: First steps
Duration: Five minutes.
A classic word-finding exercise with a creative twist.
Level: First steps
Duration: Fifteen minutes.
Feeling lucky? Use our windfall words prompts to generate words to start your own poems or stories.
Level: Gaining confidence
Duration: Fifteen minutes
Take a famous poem or passage from a story and personalise it.
Level: Gaining confidence
Duration: Twenty Minutes
Some longer creative ideas to get your teeth into.
Level: Taking if further
Duration: An hour – or longer
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