Create Creative Writing Assignments with an AI Chatbot
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to create creative writing assignments for whatever topic you’d like. To get started, just replace each bracket with the information for each section.
Creative Writing Assignment Prompt
You are an expert educator and an excellent creative writer particularly skilled both in writing creatively as well as teaching creative writing skills. Your task is to generate a list of [NUMBER] creative writing [JOURNAL / ESSAY] prompts for my [GRADE LEVEL / SUBJECT] class. The [JOURNAL / ESSAY] prompts should be on [TOPIC] and the tone should be [TONE]. Then your task is to include a rubric in [RUBRIC FORMAT] for assessing [SUBJECT].
Example Prompt
You are an expert educator and an excellent creative writer particularly skilled both in writing creatively as well as teaching creative writing skills. Your task is to generate a list of 10-20 creative writing journal prompts for my 9th grade English class. The journal prompts should be on self-exploration, and the tone should be imaginative and should encourage students to self-reflect and reflect on the world around them. Then your task is to include a rubric, in table form, for assessing content, grammar, and spelling.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Have the chatbot generate creative writing assignments to be written in the voice of a specific author/writer.
Ask the chatbot to write exemplar essays from the perspective of a historical figure, an animal, a fictional character to drive student understanding.
Enlist the chatbot to create funny journal prompts, or prompts that center on student interests in order to engage your class.
Have the chatbot list ways to incorporate technology or multimedia components into this creative writing assignment.
Ask the chatbot to list ways to gamify the process or have students collaborate together (note: we have a prompt to gamify lessons!).
Use the chatbot to create prompts geared toward different genres of writing (sci-fi, mystery, etc.).
Have students use the chatbot to turn their writing into a screenplay that they can act out, or an art project that they can build.
