COLLABORATIVE WRITING
What's Collaborative Writing?
Collaborative Writing is all about flexing your creativity as a squad of three. You’ll get three prompts (based on each WSC subject), and your team picks three of them to attack. Each homie takes one prompt and writes their own response but before pens hit paper, y’all plan together, brainstorm, swap ideas, and hype each other up. The style is all yours: story, poem, play script, fake news article, diary entry, rap, whatever. The only catch? Make it creative. WSC ain’t checking who can drop the cleanest essay, they’re looking for flavor and originality.
What to Bring
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Pen or pencil
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Water bottle
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Name tag
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A creative brain
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Teamwork that clicks
What's Happening?
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Staff drops the 3 prompts and 3 writing packets. Your squad huddles, chooses 3 prompts, and spends half an hour brainstorming. Share ideas, facts, and strategies.
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Timer resets, now it’s one hour of silence. Each person writes their own response, no talking, no helping, just you and the page.
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Squad links back up. Read each other’s drafts, fix mistakes, and give last minute feedback. Think of it like buffing your squad’s final shine before handing it in.
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One homie gathers the packets and passes them to staff.
tips
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Don’t slide in with a boring essay, this WSC, not some English homework your teacher makin’ you turn in. Nobody tryna read five paragraphs of the same ol’ intro, body, conclusion routine. This the spot to flex your style, so switch it up.
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Drop a poem that slaps, cook up a skit with drama, write it like a convo between two wild characters, whatever you choose, make sure it got personality.
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Leave that comic book idea, sounds fun, but it ain’t the move for WSC. Comics be all short bubbles and quick talk, so you can’t really flex detail or deep thoughts. Judges wanna see full ideas, structure, not just doodles.
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Drop some extra gems outside the curriculum, like random facts or crazy examples, but make sure it's true so the judges know you’re solid.
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Keep your handwriting clean and avoid that chicken scratch, because if the judges can’t read it, they can’t respect it.
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Always wrap it up strong with a conclusion that feels like a mic drop, because a powerful ending makes your piece feel complete.