Creative Writing Topics for Teen Girls
Providing your teenage daughter with ample opportunities and inspiration to write can help her better express her ideas, organize and understand her thoughts and emotions, and nurture her ability to bring things to fruition. Suggest writing projects that allow her to write freely, candidly and casually, as well as more structured and fleshed-out pieces. Encourage her to keep a journal of ideas, personal thoughts, goals, art or whatever helps her put things into perspective and increases her enjoyment of the craft.
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Personal Topics
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Having girls write on personal topics can boost their confidence and self-awareness while allowing them to practice various writing styles and techniques. This works for beginning writers, as well. Have her describe her favorite music, movie, pictures or blog. Have her write, in as much detail as possible, what specifically she likes about it. Take the topic a step further by thinking about things she can take from that piece and make her own. If she were to write her own music, blog or movie, what would it be about, or what might it look like, for instance.
Things Women Have Said
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Introduce your daughter to the thoughts of other notable women and have her weigh in. Take a quote from a historical or contemporary woman, or even a family member or a someone in the community, and have her write her thoughts on the quote. She may elaborate on the quote, use it as a prompt for a story, play or poem or explain why she agrees or disagrees with it. You can also have her come up with her own set of quotes for a certain idea or subject area, even humorous ones.
Inspiring Biographies
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Learning about the girls and women who have came before and have made a mark for themselves in contemporary society can give your daughter confidence and inspiration for her own goals and dreams. Have her research a prominent figure in one of her areas of interest. For instance, if she loves mystery and suspense movies, she can research Ida Lupino and her work in film noir during the 1940s and '50s. She can also do a biography on someone she knows and admires, which allows her to learn how to take interview information and incorporate it into her writing.
What She Sees
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Researching and writing about how other women see the world can be very inspiring for your daughter, but in the end, it's her opinion and ideas that matter the most. Encourage her to write on the world she sees around her and what she thinks of different things, even if it's negative or darker in tone, if that's what she ends up putting on paper. It may not be her only method for working through something going on in her own life, but she can learn to see beauty in things that aren't necessarily pretty or easy to define. Also encourage her to take ideas and flesh them out. She may have a funny interaction with a store clerk she can turn into a skit or short screenplay, for instance.
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