Create Your Story: 15 Guided Creative Writing Tasks — From First Ideas to Your First Draft

Big ideas. Small steps. A story of your own.

Help young writers move from “I don’t know what to write” to a complete first draft.

Created by practising English teacher and author Olly Wyatt, Create Your Story guides learners through the creative-writing process with illustrated choices, manageable questions and supported writing activities.

Across 15 carefully scaffolded tasks, young writers develop their ideas, create characters, build a world and plan a story with a clear beginning, middle and ending.

Inside the workbook, learners will:

• Create a protagonist, antagonist and sidekick.
• Explore setting, motivation, fears and beliefs.
• Plan the event that changes ordinary life and the decision that starts the adventure.
• Develop setbacks, discoveries, a climax and a resolution.
• Show how their main character changes—and which experiences teach them something.
• Turn their plans into connected paragraphs using the final three writing scaffolds.

Support that helps writers get started

Pictures and tick-box choices provide an accessible starting point. Short responses gradually lead into longer writing, supported by optional sentence starters, useful word banks and clear prompts.

The final three tasks—Write Your Beginning, Write Your Middle and Write Your Ending—provide lined space to bring everything together into a first draft.

Who is it for?

Designed for developing and reluctant writers at secondary level, particularly those who benefit from visual prompts and structured support. It may also suit upper-primary learners, Enhanced Provision, SEND/ASN support, literacy intervention and home learning.

What you receive

• One downloadable 16-page A4 PDF.
• An illustrated cover plus 15 guided task sheets.
• Black-and-white pages for printing and photocopying, with illustrations learners can colour.
• Planning activities and supported first-draft writing pages.

A digital download. No physical workbook will be posted.

Find more learning resources at ollywyatt.com.

How you can use this workbook

Your purchase allows you to print and reuse the workbook with your own classes, teaching groups or children at home.

Please do not resell it, share the PDF with other teachers or households, or upload it to publicly accessible websites. Each teacher or household should purchase their own copy.