What Happened in Between?

Creative Writing with Story Starters

This resource contains 12 creative story starters. Each story includes:

✔️ a compelling beginning
✔️ a surprising or emotional ending
✔️ a blank space in the middle – for students to complete with their ideas
✔️ a list of topic-based vocabulary to support story development

Students are invited to:

– think creatively and logically
– write in the simple past
– connect beginning and ending in a meaningful way
– use new vocabulary in context

Perfect for B1-level learners and above, this activity strengthens narrative skills, imagination, and language fluency.
It’s ideal for individual work, pair writing, exam preparation, or as part of a creative writing portfolio.