Interactive Creative Writing Games

Fun interactive writing games to get your creative juices flowing...

• Visual Poetry : Explore your creativity by drawing word mosaics with your poetry.
• Haiku Madlib : Fill out the text fields to generate 16 haikus, madlib style - using templates from the masters, including: Basho, Buson, Issa, Shiki, Shuson, and Soseki.
• Madlib Poem : A madlib poem is a fun and creative way to write poems using a fill-in-the-blank format using poem templates from famous poems.
• Electronic Poetry : Similiar to magnetic poetry. Create poems using the words of your favorite authors or create magnets from your own text. Includes author kits for: Antonin Artaud, Charles Baudelaire, Francesca Lia Block, André Breton, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Angela Carter, ee cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Brett Easton Ellis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Stephen King, Comte de Lautréamont, The Smiths, Anaïs Nin, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Oliver, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, Anne Rice, Arthur Rimbaud, J.D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Robert Smith, Gertrude Stein, Donna Tartt, Michelle Tea, Tristan Tzara, Oscar Wilde.
• Poem Collage : Enter your poem and click Generate. Poem Collage will generate your poem as a series of draggable lines. Rearrange the lines to form a new poem.
• Poem Builder : Flip 3 cards to build a poem - one: the subject of the poem, two: the poetic form you should write the poem in, and three: 10 words you should incorporate into the poem.
• Exquisite Corpse : A writing game that originated in the Surrealist movement of the early 20th century. The game involves a group of writers who each contribute a sentence or phrase to a collective work without being able to see what the other writers have written. Add a word or line to the exquisite corpse poem - started in 2000!
• Poetry Stamp : Poetry stamp will randomly generate lines of poetry, which you can then modify by changing or removing words.
• Letter Link Poetry : When we play Boggle, we then like to use the words we found to write a poem, using each word to start each line of the poem.
• Ring Game [Vowels vs Consonants] : Use letters to chain together words to write poems.
• Text Collage : Linguasso - dynamic emotional design linguasso (for lingual and Picasso) creates totally random works of art, composed of text and based on varying emotions.
• Story Dice : Roll the dice to get 6 different words - a setting, a character, an object, an action, an emotion, and an adjective. Use all of these words as prompts to write a story.
• Never­Ending­Story : Add a line to the never-ending story - started in 2000!
• Tarot Reading Writing Game : Use a Tarot Reading to flesh out characters, come up with plot twists, and character conflict. Tarot readings can be a powerful tool for writers looking to generate ideas for their creative work. By interpreting the symbolism and meanings of the tarot cards, you can access your subconscious mind and tap into a rich source of inspiration and creativity.
• Fade Out : Fade Out is a writing game that forces you to be creative with limited word choices.
• Alliterator : An alliteration engine that only uses words starting with the same letter.
• Ring Game : Use letters to chain together words to write poems.
• Graffiti Wall : Add to or edit the writing on the Graffiti Wall! Yes, your additions may be altered or deleted by someone else and you may change or delete other's additions. That is the game...
• Blind Finish-the-Story : A modified version of the popular writing game where at least three players take turns adding to a story on numbered index cards, creating a surreal dreamlike tale that can inspire or be used for fun.