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Welcome to our entertaining collection of Games for Writers, where taking a break from writing becomes a productive part of your creative process! We’ve designed and curated these word challenges, puzzles, and interactive activities specifically to keep your creative mind sharp while giving you that much-needed mental refresh. From challenging crosswords featuring literary themes to collaborative story-building exercises, each game offers a guilt-free way to step back from your manuscript while still engaging your writer’s brain.
Our diverse selection of word games includes everything from quick mental warm-ups to more complex collaborative challenges. Test your literary knowledge with our themed crosswords, hunt for author names and book titles in our word searches, or join other writers in creating surprising and delightful stories through our “Continue the Story” challenges and Exquisite Corpse exercises. These activities aren’t just fun – they’re designed to strengthen your vocabulary, enhance your creative thinking, and help you approach your writing from fresh angles.
Every writer knows the importance of taking breaks, but the guilt of stepping away from your work can be overwhelming. That’s why Games for Writers are the perfect solution – they provide mental refreshment while keeping you connected to your craft. Whether you’re stuck on a troublesome plot point, trying to overcome writer’s block, or simply need a productive way to procrastinate, these games offer the perfect balance of entertainment and creative engagement.
Our community particularly loves the collaborative aspects of many games in our collection. The “Continue the Story” challenges and Exquisite Corpse exercises bring writers together in unexpected ways, creating surprising narratives and forging connections between creators. These shared creative experiences often spark new ideas and approaches that writers can bring back to their own work, making even playtime productive.
If you’re ready to embrace guilt-free creative breaks, our Games for Writers section is your perfect destination. Each game has been carefully selected or designed to provide maximum entertainment while keeping your writer’s mind engaged and active. So go ahead – take that break you’ve been needing, challenge yourself with a word puzzle, join a collaborative story, or test your literary knowledge. Your manuscript will still be there when you return, and you might just find yourself approaching it with renewed energy and fresh ideas!
Many respectable news and literary publications have crosswords or word searches, so we thought we could run a weekly Word Search for writers. On Mondays we will run one of these. If you find all the words, post a comment below. Not all of these will be this easy, but they will all have something…
Our Horror Authors Word Search offers the perfect mental palette cleanser while keeping you connected to the literary world.
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Welcome to our Horror Novel Crossword for writers. Today, we’re crossing over into the dark side with a spine-tingling crossword puzzle dedicated to the most haunting horror novels ever written. Whether you’re a devoted horror fan or a writer seeking inspiration from the masters of fear, this crossword will test your knowledge of the genre’s…
Welcome to another exciting installment of our weekly Writers’ Game Series! Today, we’re bringing you a spine-tingling word
We’re excited to announce the return of our popular writing collaboration, “Continue the Horror!” Alongside our successful Haiku, 50 Horror Story, and 6 word memoirs, we’ve decided to resurrect this thrilling interactive experience. “Continue the Horror” is a fun, engaging way for writers to come together and create a spine-chilling tale. While this isn’t a…
Welcome to Every Writer’s Weekly Writers Crossword, a delightful and challenging puzzle designed to test
Luckily, there are lots of fun writing games and exercises you can try each day to get those creative juices flowing. In this blog post, I’ll share a list
This is our continue the poem page. Just like continue the story, we collectively write a poem together in the comments.
Welcome to our game for writers. Welcome to our Exquisite Corpse. An Exquisite Corpse is a writing or art game where you complete the poem. Each author or artist cannot see the previous artists/writers’ work. In this case, we are writing poetry together. It is a poem about anything. If you don’t know, The Exquisite…
Here is a little game I like to play with other writers from time to time. I run one of these everyone once in awhile. I thought this would be fun for the Holidays. I’ve never done a Christmas themed continue the story before.
This game is a Christmas tradition, and it was made for writers. It’s simple. You have to give a simile usually and idiom, for example
She was a broken person. Inside her chest she could feel it. All of the facts pointed to her being the trouble. Standing at the grocery story, feeling anxious and terrible
Welcome to our Word Scramble for Writers. These are 8 to 10 words we pick every week to let you test your word skills. We find, sometimes, writers need to decompress, and put your time in the comments, so we can compare.