Creative Writing excercise:

Pick two words from a dictionary at random. These two words will then combine to become a character to write about. (15 minutes)

The air was hot and humid which made it difficult to breathe. A drop of moisture slid lazily along the surface of a leaf before plopping dramatically onto Sphere Mightiest little pointy nose. Startled, he waddles from the cover of the luscious plant he had been hiding in and snagged a claw on a twisted tree root.

He had to admit, this was the furthest he had ever travelled from home and was starting to doubt that a forest in deepest darkest Wales was the best place for an Armadillo.

If only those pesky ants hadn’t dared him to prove his worth, if only his mother hadn’t given him a ridiculous name like Sphere Mightiest, a name which gave his fellow creatures a right to question how mighty he is. Not that he usually wants to prove himself mighty, for that is exactly what he is not.


Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.