Unlock Your Creativity with a Word

Any word will do! No matter how complicated, technical, or just plain strange a word may be, it can be split and spun. Even non-English words are fair game!

Divide your word into smaller bits – you can break it up into sounds, syllables, or even individual letters. If you’re splitting a longer word, there might be multiple different ways to do this. Now, expand each of these split-up segments into a word of its own using mnemonic techniques like rhyming, soundalike, and free association. Your goal is to turn each small segment into a similar-sounding word! If the resulting phrase is a little wacky, don’t worry – that’s just part of the fun!

For example: the word ‘Rescind’ can be split into the syllables ‘res’ and ‘cind’. ‘Res’ can be expanded into ‘Rescue’ and ‘cind’ reminds me of ‘Cinderella’ so I split ‘Rescind’ into the phrase ‘Rescue Cinderella’. Another example: ‘Egalitarian’ becomes ‘Eagle Ate the Train’ (‘Egal’ = ‘Eagle’, ‘it’ = ‘Ate’, ‘a’ = ‘the’, and ‘rian’ = ‘Train’).

Use your word-split phrase as inspiration for a miniature story. You can think of the word-split as a title for your tale. This is where you can really unleash your creativity! The only rule: make sure that your tale features at least one proper usage of the original vocabulary word – other than that, let your imagination run wild!

Your tale can be as long or as short as you’d like (and as serious, funny, or off-the-wall-bonkers) as long as it’s memorable! Even a single sentence can tell a story: ‘When the king rescinded Cinderella’s invitation to the ball and locked her in the dungeon, the prince had no choice but to rescue her.’