Intro: So I did a freewrite with my students, because honestly, it's one of the few times I write creatively these days, and because the topic was "Fairy Tales," I decided to write alongside them. It's good exercise, and I'm trying to do a creative writing assignment for one of my summer classes in a [...]
Tag: writing exercise
Writing: Muse
Intro: I have not done many fiction writing exercises lately, but at the suggestion of a professor, I can use this time to get back to my love for it, and what better time than doing freewrites with my students? This is kind of a spinoff to my previous thought about "Writing as a Person." [...]
Writing Wednesdays #6: Prompt Exchange
Of course it'd be me who ends up with a romance prompt. Leave it to my writing voldies to drag a kissing story out of me. And then make me end it in a TRAGEDY. I'm getting way too ahead of myself, though. This week, I had the writing voldies think up different prompts, which [...]
Writing Wednesdays #4: Retellings
On Wednesdays I put my writing cap on. You know, the more age-appropriate one that tries not to curse or come up with morbid ways to end my characters. Nevermind that the eighth graders in my writing workshop are crazier than I am, but you know. Kids. They have the darnedest imaginations. This week, Jacob [...]
Writing Wednesdays #3: Word Maps
So I think my writing voldies were still reeling from last week, because I must have got the "Are we going to be learning more about Taylor Swift this week" question so many times before the session began. One of my fifth graders adored the similes and metaphor song so much he wanted me to [...]
Story and Somnomancy 