Sunday 16 March 2014

Who-What-When-Where-How list

Here’s a list of words you can use if you’re playing the Who-What-When-Where-How game for inspiration. Print them out and cut them up to pick randomly, then populate into the sentences below as an opening to a short story. The words give you the Who, What, When, Where and How. Your aim is to explain the Why in your story.

Who

The princess

David Cameron

Batman

Lionel Richie

A small child

The evil count

A tiger

A pack of wolves

Mystic Meg

Santa Claus

What

Skirt

Stereo

Cat

Bible

Concert tickets

Ransom note

Popcorn

Tin of beans

Fishing Rod

When

Ancient Egyptian

Victorian

Gregorian

1920s

Post-war

Prehistoric

30th Century

Roman

Tudor

Jurassic

Where

Beach

Cattle market

Swamp

Pig farm

Garden shed

Board room

Monastery

Drafty barn

Holiday camp

Steam room

How

In terror

Angrily

Lazily

Enthusiastically

Joyfully

In despair

Nervously

Noisily

Quietly

In a panic




The sentences we used were:

(Who) clutched the (What) and ran (How) through the (When) (Where).

and

Speaking (How) in the (Where), (Who) gestured at the (When) (What).

Have fun!

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