Creative Writing – Interactive PowerPoint – Character Wheel

This free creative writing resource is an interactive PowerPoint with a spinning wheel that displays different fantasy / medieval character examples. The purpose of this writing prompt tool is for students to spin the wheel and write about the type of character that it points to when they stop it from spinning. It’s a perfect prompting tool for students who are writing Fantasy , Hero’s Journey or Quest stories.

The character examples on the wheel include the following:

• Dragon
• Frog
• Horse
• Inventor
• King
• Knight
• Pirate
• Pixie
• Servant
• Student
• Thief
• Witch

*A page with the following activity suggestions for this tool has also been included in this resource:

• Write a short story about the character
• Write a paragraph to describe the character (e.g. name, physical appearance, age, where the character lives, the character’s time period, personality, motivations, problems, friends, family, enemies etc.)
• Write a paragraph about the character’s back-story
• Write a poem about the character
• Create a character profile
• Write a monologue that describes your character’s motivations
• Write a soliloquy that shows your character’s inner thoughts
• Create a storyboard to detail the most significant events across your character’s story
• Draw a picture of your character
• Write a letter of complaint from the perspective of your character
• Create a “Wanted” poster with your character’s face and name (make sure to give details about the reward, the whereabouts, the crimes they have committed, who to contact etc.)
• Write a song about (or written by) the character