Icebreakers for writers
Want a way to connect with your fellow writers? Check out the following icebreaker questions. Answer them for yourself, and then ask them at your next online team huddle or virtual happy hour. Though some of them may keep until your next in-person happy hour.
- Do you prefer to write fiction or non-fiction?
- As a writer if you could only choose one, would you rather be a commercial success or a critical success?
- If you could have dinner with any writer living or dead, who would it be?
- What was your favorite book when you were in elementary school?
- What was your favorite book in high school?
- Did you ever use a card catalog?
- Did you ever get in trouble as a kid for reading something you shouldn’t have been reading?
- Is there a book or series of books that you wish you had written?
- What do you like best about being a writer?
- What do you like least about being a writer?
- Do you edit your own work?
- Are there any other writers in your family?
- Have you ever read something you wrote years ago and wondered “what was I thinking?”? What was it?
- What are your writing pet peeves?
- When you sit down to write, do you follow an outline or a structure? Or do you just write and see where it takes you?
- Has anything you’ve written ever turned out not as you planned it? How so?
- Do you have any superstitions when it comes to writing? (You use a certain font, don’t write on a Monday, etc.)
- If you could go back and visit any time period, what time period would you visit?
- Do you read paper books or electronic books?
- If you could only own the books of one author, who would it be?
- Is there a genre that you don’t read at all? What is it?
- What class did you like the least in college?
- Did you formally study writing in school?
- What does your mom think of your writing?
- If you could learn one new professional skill, what would it be?
Do you have any other questions to add to this list? Please post them below.
