Young authors, tap into your creativity and write your own book at our Chicago Children’s Book Writing Month events in December. Inspired by NaNoWriMo, we call it ChiChiBoWriMo (pronounced shy-chee-bo-rye-mow).
Do you have a book in your head that you want to put on paper? Is it a children’s novel, an illustrated poetry book, an informational book on your favorite topic or maybe even a comic book? Make it happen this month!
Need some inspiration? Try these prompts to get started, and check out our recommended reads to get your imagination going.
- Ask a friend to draw a picture that you can write a story about.
- Imagine what your parents were like as kids and what they might have done to get into trouble.
- Write about your family's favorite traditions.
- Think of as many rhyming word pairs as you can in five minutes and use them to write a poem.
- Take a story you already know and add a new twist to it.
- Tell a story without any words, just pictures and drawings.
- Create your own superhero and write the first issue of their comic book.
- What would your life be like if you lived in the past? The future?
- If it snowed so much you couldn’t leave your house, what would you do?
- Write a biography about someone important in your life.
- Write about something you used to be scared of but can laugh about now.
- Where would you fly if you had wings?