250THINGS TO WRITE
Adventure Stories
Advertisements – newspaper, magazine
Advice columns – consumer, lovelorn
Allegories
Analyses
Announcements
Aphorisms
Argumentation
Autobiographies
Banners
Billboards
Biographies
Blurbs
Books
Book jackets
Book reports
Brochures
Bumper stickers
Business letters
Calendars
Captions for photos
Case studies
Chants
Character Sketches
Charts Cheers
Children’s picture books
Choral readings
Chronicles
Class books
Class anthologies
Classification essay
Classified ads
Columns – political, humor, gossip
Comedy Monologues
Comic books
Comic strips
Commercials – radio, TV
Commonplace books
Comparison essays
Contrast essays
Conversations
Correspondences
Criticism
Crossword puzzles
Debates Definitions
Descriptions
Diagrams
Dialogues
Diaries
Dictation
Digests
Directions – to places, how to make and do things
Doggerel
Dramatizations
Editorials
Encyclopedia articles
Epics Epitaphs
Essays – familiar, formal
Evaluations
Explanations
Exposition
Eyewitness reports
Fables
Fairy tales
Family trees
Family histories
Fantasies
Feature articles
Fiction
Fictional diaries of famous people
Flyers
Folk tales
Forms to be filled out
Freewritings
Future predictions, projections
Generalizations
Greeting Cards
Guided tours
Handbills
Headlines
Histories
Historical reportage
Historical fiction
Homilies
Human interest stories
Humorous works
Idioms Images
Imaginative Writings
Improvisations
Instructions
Interior monologues
Interviews
Introductions
Invitations
Job applications
Jokes
Journalism
Journals
Junk mail
Language play
Leads
Leaflets
Lectures
Letters – personal, business
Letters to the editor
Lists
Literary criticism, analysis
Logs
Magazines
Magazine articles, ads, etc.
Manuals
Maps
Matchbook covers
Maxims
Memoirs
Memory writings
Memos
Messages
Mini mysteries
Monographs
Monologues
Mother Goose Tales
Mysteries
Myths
Names
Narrations
Narrative
Nature studies
Newsletters
Newspapers
News stories, articles
Non fiction
Notes
Novels
Obituaries
Observations – of natures, human nature
One-act plays
Opinion
Pamphlets
Panel discussions
Paragraphs
Personal feelings
Personal narratives
Personal reactions
Personal reminiscences
Persuasion
Philosophies
Photo comics (a series of captioned photos)
Plays
Poetry (countless forms)
Posters
Press conferences
Problems
Process papers
Profiles
Propaganda
Prose
Public notices
Puns
Puppet shows
Questionnaires
Quizzes
Quotations
Radio shows, ads, plays
Reference papers
Reflections
Reminiscences
Reportage
Reports
Research
Resumès
Reviews – book, film, TV show, play, restaurant
Riddles
Romance novels
Satires
Scenes
Schedules
Science fiction
Scientific observations
Scripts
Sensory recordings
Sentences
Serials
Sermons
Short stories
Slogans
Socratic dialogues
Soliloquies
Song lyrics
Speeches
Stories
Stream of consciousness
Surveys
Survival communications
Tall tales
Tape recordings
Technical writings
Telegrams
Textbooks
Thank-you notes
Theories
Theses
Titles
Topic statements
Transcriptions
True Confessions
TV shows
TV ads
Verse
Weather reports
Westerns
“What if?…” stories
Who done its
Word play, word games
Writing about pictures
Yearbooks