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Story Sparkers are a fun activity to play with friends of all ages or to get yourself out from under that writer's block! The idea is to SPARK your imagination by providing you with the beginning of a story and leaving it up to you and your friends to put their own creative stamp on the rest.
Turn that spark into a raging fire!
Check out the other pages on this site for Story Sparkers that use visual images and even music! Most importantly, have fun!
Story Sparkers
Story Sparkers are simple sentence beginnings or a few sentences that are intended to be the first words of a story and are continued from there by you, the writer. Think of them as just the 'spark' that's needed but you take it from there and turn it into a raging fire!
This can be played as a fun activity with friends too! Just pick a Story Sparker, then have a friend continue the story for a few sentences, more or less. You can change the wording of the Story Sparker to help fit your continuation of the story if you need. Then pass along the story to the next person to write a little more to the story and so on and so on until you have a fun story to read aloud to everyone.
**A variation to the activity, you can hide what the last person wrote and only share the last few words in the middle of a sentence and have them continue the story with little to go on. It will definitely be a silly story that probably won't make much sense, but sometimes that can be the most fun!
This can be played as a fun activity with friends too! Just pick a Story Sparker, then have a friend continue the story for a few sentences, more or less. You can change the wording of the Story Sparker to help fit your continuation of the story if you need. Then pass along the story to the next person to write a little more to the story and so on and so on until you have a fun story to read aloud to everyone.
**A variation to the activity, you can hide what the last person wrote and only share the last few words in the middle of a sentence and have them continue the story with little to go on. It will definitely be a silly story that probably won't make much sense, but sometimes that can be the most fun!
Story Sparker Options
- I never knew anyone could be that ridiculous. But there we were, standing in the middle of a deserted parking lot in the pouring rain wondering...
- She gingerly crept over to the door. Her fingers pushed against it and a soft creak awoke from the door. The flame of the candle shook as she pushed the warm light into the hallway. As she turned the corner,...
- Why does everything bad have to happen to me? Just yesterday,...
- Tuppman wiggled his nose in the air squeezing his eyes shut in pure delight. "You know what that smell is?...
- I remember the last time I danced with her, I remember the last meal we ate together, but I can't seem to remember...
- I lace up my boots, strap on my armor and load my weapons. I take a deep, tense breath thinking, 'What a way to celebrate my birthday.' I shake it off and exit the tent,...
- Being a class clown takes hard work and talent, you know. During school I've managed to...
- She thought her friendship would never end until...
- He heard the strangest sound in the hallway. It made everyone stop dead in their tracks. If it were in a movie, you could then hear a record being scratched to a halt to overdramatize the sudden stop in commotion. Everyone turned to see where the sound came from and finally figured out that...
- Oh how I wish I looked like Molly, the most popular girl in school, but then again...
- 'Don't touch that fire!' is something we've all heard since we were little. But the reason why your parents tell you that is very different from why my parents told me. You see...
- Create your own!