Compiled from and added to lists created by
Patricia Killian (personal contact)
and
H. Douglas Brown (1994)
Instead of writing a story, try . . .
Advertisements
Advice columns
Allegories
Anedctoes
Anthems
Apologies
Appendices
Applications
Articles
Assumptions
Autobiographies
Awards
Ballads
Beauty tips
Bedtime stories
Billboards
Biographies
Bio-poems
Blurbs
Book jackets
Book reviews
Booklets
Books
Bulletins
Bumper stickers
Calendar quips
Campaign speeches
Cartoons
Cereal boxes
Certificates
Chain stories
Character sketches
Character copying
Charts
Cinquaines
Comic strips
Comparisons
Compilations
Complaints
Completing unfinished sentences
Constitutions
Contracts
Conundrums
Conversations
Couplets
Critiques
Data sheets
Defenses
Definitions
Descriptions
Diagrams
Dialogues
Diaries
Dictations
Diets
Directions
Documentaries
Dramas
Editorials
Emergency plans
Encyclopedia entries
Epilogues
Essays
Evaluations
Exaggerations
Exclamations
Explanations
Fables
Fairy tales
Fantasies
Fashion articles
Folklore stories
Forms
Fortunes
Free writes
Game rules
Gossip
Graffiti
Greeting cards
Grocery/shopping lists
Headlines
Horoscopes
How-to-do-its
Hypotheses
Indexes
Inquiries
Instructions
Insults
Interviews
Introductions
Invitations
Itineraries
Jazz chants
Job applications
Jokes
Jump rope rhymes
Justifications
Labels
Legends
Letters
Lies
Lists
Love notes
Lyrics
Magazines
Manuals
Marriage vows
Memories
Menus
Metaphors
Monologues
Movie reviews
Movie scripts
Mysteries
Myths
News analyses
Newscasts
Newsletters
Nursery rhymes
Obituaries
Observations
Odes
Opinions
Outrageous comments
Palindromes
Pamphlets
Paragraphs
Parodies
Party tips
Phrases
Plays
Poems
Policies
Polls
Post cards
Power Point Presentations
Predictions
Problems
Problem solutions
Prologues
Proposals
Questions
Questionnaires
Recipes
Reports
Résumés
Rules
Sentences
Signs
Simulations
Summaries
Timelines
Travelogues
Weather Reports