Fan Fiction Creative Writing Project for Middle and High School Students

Are you searching for a fun way to help your students build creative writing skills? Fan fiction is a genre that allows students to write a story that incorporates characters and elements from their favorite TV show, sports team, social media channel, and more. Middle and high school students will have a blast developing new storylines for characters they already love.

These are a few of our favorite resources for teaching a fan fiction creative writing unit:

📚Fan Fiction Prompts and Brainstorming Template

This printable template includes 31 prompts with story ideas to help students brainstorm. It also includes space to begin drafting three concepts, as well as clear directions for asking classmates and teachers for feedback.

📚Fan Fiction Writing Project Grading Rubric

Designed to help teachers provide specific, meaningful feedback to their students, this 2-page rubric assesses a range of fan fiction genre elements, including characters, setting and atmosphere, word choice, dialogue, organization and plot, conventions, length, and publishing.

📚Fan Fiction Site Design Worksheet
Guide your students through the process of planning a fan fiction site design with this printable template. This worksheet includes clear directions for searching for a blog hosting platform, designing the site, incorporating photos and illustrations, encouraging reader comments, creating an "about the author page," writing meaningful chapter titles, and more. At the end of the worksheet, students will have the opportunity to sketch out the homepage of their website.

📚Fan Fiction Mentor Text Analysis Worksheet

Help your students analyze a fan fiction mentor text with this printable guide. This 2-page pdf includes a series of questions that guide students through the process of closely reading a story that models the writing standards and skills that they will need to use when they write their own fan fiction. It challenges students to think deeply about the author's craft and writing techniques.

📚Fan Fiction Plot Diagram Worksheet

Help your students outline their fan fiction story with this plot diagram template. This print-and-go worksheet will guide students through the process of planning the exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution in their story.

📚Fan Fiction Character Profile Template

Help your students develop strong fan fiction characters with this character profile template. This template includes two pages in which students will write about the character's backstory, personality, goals/motives, strengths, weaknesses, physical characteristics, and more. They will gather this information from their research about the reference source (anime, TV show, novel, sports team, etc.) On the third page, students will describe ways in which they will modify the character within their fan fiction story.