OurSummer Creative Writing Intensivesfor teens is a week-long program offered for three weeks every summer. Students study specific literary genres, work with professional author-instructors and special guests, and develop their literary voices and imaginations along with a group of like-minded peers....
It seemed fitting that I would teach a Creative Writing Class for Children, a summer program that I designed for motivated children ages eight to thirteen, here in a Big Ten university town. Amazingly, the class is quite effective with the huge age range. And much to my surprise, the olde...
Beginning in kindergarten children who will one day become adults are taught how to write. Writing represents the next step in human communication. At the heart of this evolution comes the preservation of human knowledge. Humans learn a set of alphabets wherewith each letter is used to form a ...
mainly in the form of song writing (little of which I can find now). In the 80s I started writing poems mainly for Christmas, family birthdays and other events to send out with cards and found I really enjoyed it. After a while I branched out into writing just for fun, playing with ...
(I get the books on Kindle and put my phone on text-to-speech so I can listen while I work.) Brandon Sanderson has several other series (Mistborn is probably his most well-known), but they are for older teens because there is quite a bit of killing and the writing is much more com...
That summer, Dear was invited along with two white teachers to begin a Head Start program at a white school called Tidwell. She was married to a new man, Chester Harris, and working on a new campus, yet racism, the poisoned interplay of darkness and light that had lurked about to hurt...
This short story inspired by Elizabeth Tan’s writing style and specifically the short story“A Girl on a Unicorn in the Middle of a Shopping centre.”It was actually for a school assignment, which was practice for our upcoming sac. However, although the assignment required you to write a ...
excels in the art of creative writing. She's very fortunate to have such a creative and intelligent mother who devises games and prompts that would pique many students' interests in creative writing. Your daughter is obviously gifted as well. I love your ideas to encourage teens and adults ...
Experienced Writing Coach for High School, College, and Adults Hi! I’m Leigh (Lee), and I’m here to help you succeed in literature, English, andcreative writing. With a strong academic background from esteemed institutions like Harvard, the University of Chicago, Temple University, and Geor...
Giving people resources and sticking with young adults.37:00The paralysis of too much information.37:20What is meant by “Standing on (the shoulder’s of) Giants”@kylereed follow him on TWITTER40:00The Spark challenge I gave Kyle.