Creative Writing Prompt

Character map and character speculations

Hello Writer! So glad to have you back. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

So this week we’ve been reading and talking about the first 9 chapters in From the Desk of Zoe Washington. We had a few interesting topics introduced in Tuesday’s reading guide, but today we’re going to bring a little more fun into it.

If you are unfamiliar, a writing prompt is just a way to interact with the book through your own writing. It’s an activity to strengthen reading and writing skills, but also to enjoy and bring a little bit of yourself.

The Prompt

Today we are going to make character maps of 3 characters— Zoe, Trevor, and Marcus. We are going to draw them, write a bit and then speculate a bit about them. To speculate, means to form an idea without all the information. What do you think about them? It’s only been 9 chapters, so we don’t know everything about these people, but we can start to form our own ideas.

The map should look like this:

On a piece of paper make for large boxes. One should be a drawing of your character. The other a list of character traits. The third a quote from that character, so something they directly said. And the last should be a speculation, what do you think about this person? Are they nice, guilty, innocent, honest, dangerous, kind? I leave that up to you.

I hope you’ll share your work in the comments or share with a friend!