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Generate thousands of unique stories using our ultimate story generator. Just enter some words about your story, and press the 'Generate Story' button. You can create a unique story within minutes to share with your friends. Writing stories has never been so easy! Try out our story generator and step-by-step story maker tool now!

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Our daily writing challenges aim to inspire and encourage young writers to write daily. Each day the challenges will update to show a new inspirational prompt for you to write about. We have special seasonal writing challenges, as well as regular challenges, such as the word challenge, book title challenge, poetry challenge and more!

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Design your own forest online by placing trees, flowers, animals and more from the marketplace. Spend the XP points you gained to grow your forest. The more XP points you gain, the more your forest grows. Visit your friends forest, compete in leaderboards, get regular surprises and more. Watch your virtual forest come to life!

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Imagine Forest offers a combination of writing activities and writing games to break down the heavy task of writing a story into small and easy-to-manage activities. Our writing activities aim to inspire aspiring writers to get that winning story idea and even improve their writing skills in the process.

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Story starters are a brilliant way to fix blank page syndrome (or writer's block). Did you know that 67% of authors say the most challenging part of writing is starting their story? We have thousands of story starters to get you writing in no time! And that's not all, if you're still stuck for inspiration we even have a ton of artwork to inspire you.

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With thousands of story combinations to keep you writing stories every day. Our simple-to-use story idea generator comes with tons of fun and wacky prompts to inspire you. Whether you're into pirates or princesses we got writing prompts to suit every child out there.

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Learning new words is not only fun but highly valuable in improving your literacy skills. Our built-in dictionary, thesaurus and rhyming dictionary are brilliant for learning new words and making your stories more exciting.

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Imagine Forest for Teachers

Are you a teacher or an educator? Then Imagine forest is the best writing tool for you to use. Not only is it 100% free, but it also has tons of features to make your lessons easy and fun. Some of these features include creating assignments for your students, monitoring their progress and giving badges for the best stories!

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Create a parent account with Imagine Forest to keep track of your child's activity and progress on the site. You can even add multiple children under one email address. And publish books in the 'Family' library for the whole family to see! Create a parent account now, and sign your children up for FREE!

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Imagine Forest is on a mission to create a safe creative writing community for kids. We have a number of safety features in place, such as email verification, a strict book moderation process, a predefined commenting feature and more to keep our users safe online. Click the ‘Learn More’ button to see a full list of our safety features

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Imagine forest free?

Yes. Imagine Forest is 100% free. There are no additional costs or subscription fees. All features you see on the site are fully available for free.

How do you use Imagine forest?

To use Imagine Forest simply start by creating an account. We currently have four account options available: Parent, Educator/teacher, Student and Regular. You may need to verify your email address before you can start using Imagine Forest. Once logged in to your account, you can start writing a story by clicking the ‘Write’ link in the main navigation. Then select the type of story you want to write and continue following the on-screen instructions. You can also explore the rest of the site to find some interesting activities and writing resources to help you become a better story writer.

How do I register for Imagine Forest?

To register on Imagine Forest visit the Register page from the main navigation. Registration is 100% free, although you may need to verify your email address before you can use Imagine Forest. There are four account types available:

  • Parent: Add multiple child accounts and monitor their activity on the site.
  • Teacher/Educator: Create classrooms, add students and create assignments that can be graded on Imagine Forest.
  • Student: Complete assignments, read books published by fellow students and write as normal.
  • Regular: Write stories, read books by others, complete activities and more.

Regular user features also exist on parent, teacher/educator and student accounts.

Is Imagine Forest safe for kids?

Yes of course. We have a number of safety features and data protection measures in place to keep all of our users safe online. You can view this full list of online safety features for more information.

What is a class code?

A class code is created when a teacher creates a classroom on Imagine Forest using the teacher/educator account. This class code can be used by students to create a free student account on Imagine Forest. If a student does not have a class code, then they should ask their teacher for the class code, so they can sign-up to Imagine Forest as a student. Alternatively, a parent can sign their child up to Imagine Forest without the class code via the Parent account.

Can I view a list of Writing Prompts?

Yes. Imagine Forest has a huge list of writing prompts and story starters. You can view this collection of writing prompts on our blog, in the writing prompts category.

Is it possible to remove the ads?

Yes. Ads are completely removed automatically on the following account types: Teacher/Educator, Student, Parent and Child account. If you are not logged in or have a regular user account then ads will still display on the site. Ads are very important for us, as it helps us manage the costs of running Imagine Forest, and also help us to keep it 100% free for users.

Is it possible to upload my own images?

At this moment in time, no it is not possible to upload your own images. We may bring this feature in the future. The purpose of Imagine Forest is to guide you on how to write a good story. It is an educational tool for helping beginners write stories and poems. We do however provide a huge built-in library of photos, and illustrations to use. You can also request more specific images by contacting our team.

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No matter what kind of stories you create, advertising to promote a product and services, or post contests and games with questions and tests, in the Ellty Instagram stories app you will find a lot of ideas and beautiful professional examples of pictures, you just have to choose your style and start designing.

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Download Instagram Stories better in JPG or PNG format, while choosing the best resolution, since Instagram can compress your story after processing and the quality will become a little worse. Don't forget to post several stories a day and keep an eye on the limits.

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The recommended Instagram Story image size should be 1080 x 1920 pixels (9:16 aspect ratio) for full screen width. Otherwise, the image will be automatically cropped and resized. This is undesirable. The length of one story can vary depending on the content of the video, so the length of a story can vary from 2 to 15 seconds.

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The most popular Instagram Stories format is 9:16, after you decide on the format, download as JPG or PNG with a size of no more than 30MB, for images with a logo or text, it is best to use a PNG file. With regards to the types of stories, there are several: Video stories, animated, static, game with questions from subscribers and polls.

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Instagram Stories are a powerful tool when it comes to promoting your business, services or personal brand. This will help your audience stay up to date with new news about your brand or products. Share your stories with your friends and ask them to repost to increase your reach. Always keep track of statistics in a business account and follow the views and reactions of subscribers.

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    It is currently not possible to add video with sound, but our team is already working on it - we plan to launch this feature within a year.

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