Download or read book Create Your Own Creative Prompt Notebook A Workshop written by Tabitha Beck and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This powerful little workshop is chock full of ideas to fill your very own creative journal, no matter your field of artistic endeavor, with your own material. In this manner, you will be able to access your own creative genius using your own prompts, rather than depending upon someone else's work that may or may not be quite that which you were seeking.

Download or read book A Writer s Notebook written by Ralph Fletcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap into your inner writer with this book of practical advice by the bestselling author of How Writers Work and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding. Writers are just like everyone else—except for one big difference. Most people go through life experiencing daily thoughts and feelings, noticing and observing the world around them. But writers record these thoughts and observations. They react. And they need a special place to record those reactions. Perfect for classrooms, A Writer’s Notebook gives budding writers a place to keep track of all the little things they notice every day. Young writers will love these useful tips for how to use notes and jottings to create stories and poems of their own.

Download or read book Heart Maps written by Georgia Heard and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we get students to "ache with caring" about their writing instead of mechanically stringing words together? We spend a lot of time teaching the craft of writing but we also need to devote time to helping students write with purpose and meaning. For decades, Georgia Heard has guided students into more authentic writing experiences by using heart maps to explore what we all hold inside: feelings, passions, vulnerabilities, and wonderings. In Heart Maps, Georgia shares 20 unique, multi-genre heart maps to help your students write from the heart, such as the First Time Heart Map, Family Quilt Heart Map, and People I Admire Heart Map. You'll also find extensive support for using heart maps, including: tips for getting started with heart maps writing ideas to jumpstart student writing in multiple genres from heart maps suggested mentor texts to provide additional inspiration. Filled with full-color student heart maps, examples of the resulting writing, along with online access to 20 different uniquely designed reproducible heart map templates, Heart Maps will be a practical tool for awakening new writing possibilities and engaging and motivating your students' writing throughout the year.

Download or read book Bang The Keys written by Jill Dearman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attention aspiring and working writers alike! Finish your work in four easy steps with this explosion of inspiration. How can aspiring writers-whether aiming for a short story, novel, screenplay, or nonfiction work-gain the confidence they need to follow through on their creative visions.... The answer can be found in this book by a writing coach and university writing professor whose "Bang the Keys" workshop stems from an innovative four-step system that offers practical advice for demonstrated results every time. Step 1: Begin with the strongest idea. Step 2: Arrange the work into a concrete shape. Step 3: Nurture the project with love, so that others can love it, too. Step 4: Go finish, and then let it go so it may live independently in the world. Also included are practical writing exercises that will give readers the tools and the inspiration to finish the writing projects they start ... or bust their fingers trying!

Download or read book The Book of Qualities written by J. Ruth Gendler and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1988-01-27 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Beauty to Compassion, from Pleasure to Terror, from Resignation to Joy -- here is an insightful exploration of the rich diversity of human qualities. J. Ruth Gendler's evocative book has as its cast of familiar characters our own emotions, brought to life with a poet's wisdom and an artist's perceptive eye. In The Book of Qualities' magical community, Excitement wears orange socks, Faith lives in the same apartment building as Doubt, and Worry makes lists of everything that could go wrong while she is waiting for the train. In portraying the complexities of the psyche, Gendler uses the Qualities to bridge the distinctions between literature and psychology, and has created an original work that challenges us to look at our emotions in new and inspiring ways.

Download or read book The Anti Racist Writing Workshop written by Felicia Rose Chavez and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan 's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color. Instead of earmarking dusty anthologies, imagine workshop participants Skyping with contemporary writers of difference. Instead of tolerating bigoted criticism, imagine workshop participants moderating their own feedback sessions. Instead of yielding to the red-penned judgement of instructors, imagine workshop participants citing their own text in dialogue. The Antiracist Writing Workshop is essential reading for anyone looking to revolutionize the old workshop model into an enlightened, democratic counterculture.

Download or read book Write What Matters written by Tom Romano and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many want to write. But sometimes they lose heart. They are cowed in the face of so many fine writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, columns, and creative nonfiction. Their confidence wanes. If you want to write, but are hesitant, let Tom Romano lift your confidence. In Write What Matters you will find discussions of writing processes that make sense, demonstrations of effective strategies to try, advice about developing productive habits to get your writing done, and examples of illuminating writing from fearless writers, both professional and novice. Your voice, your vision, your way with words matter. They are tied to your identity. You know that you are more alive when you put words on paper. Accept that you not only want to write. You need to write. Write What Matters will help you learn to dwell in your written words and craft them into writing worth reading by others.

Download or read book Old Friend from Far Away written by Natalie Goldberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book to focus solely on writing since her classic work "Writing Down the Bones," Goldberg reaffirms her status as one of the foremost teachers by redefining the practice of writing memoir.

Download or read book SoulCollage written by Seena B. Frost and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "SoulCollageTM is a process through which you contact your intuition and create an incredible deck of cards which have deep personal meaning and which will help you with life's questions. Following the simple SoulCollage directions, your hands move fragments of cut-out magazine pictures around, fitting them together in a surprising new way and gluing them down on a card. Cards containing the images you select -- or the images that select you -- come straight through your Soul, bypassing the mind. This is a multi-leveled, creative process which anyone can do. All you need is a good pair of scissors, pre-cut mat board cards, glue, and images you can cut out from magazines, greeting cards, personal photos, postcards, catalogues, and calendars. It is wonderful to have other people with whom to share the process. The cards are fun to take to a friend's house, to work with in therapy or support groups, or to keep on your coffee table."--Publisher description.

Download or read book Personal Journal For Creative Writing written by Marie Brevil and published by . This book was released on 2021-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This notebook includes 50 different writing prompts. It has plenty of room to write on at least 2 lined pages. This notebook has a total of 102 pages. This is for any creative person who needs some more inspiration, so grab yours today. This is also for those creative writing enthusiasts and journaling shoppers. This has plenty of creative prompts that are inspirational and rich. Have fun writing and gain your inspiration back.

Download or read book The Steal Like an Artist Journal written by Austin Kleon and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work! comes an interactive journal and all-in-one logbook to get your creative juices flowing, and keep a record of your ideas and discoveries. The Steal Like an Artist Journal is the next step in your artistic journey. It combines Austin Kleon’s unique and compelling ideas with the physical quality that makes journals like Moleskines so enormously popular. Page after page of ideas, prompts, quotes, and exercises are like a daily course in creativity. There are lists to fill in—Ten Things I Want to Learn, Ten Things I Probably Think About More Than the Average Person. Challenges to take. Illustrated creative exercises—Make a Mixtape (for someone who doesn’t know you) and Fill in the Speech Balloons. Pro and con charts—What Excites You?/What Drains You? The journal has an elastic band for place-marking and a special pocket in the back—a “swipe file” to store bits and pieces of inspiration. Because if you want to steal like an artist, you need a place to keep your loot.

Download or read book One Creative Writing Prompt A Day written by Lita Kurth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get inspired and build your skills with one year of daily creative writing prompts The best way to get better at writing? Practice! This prompt-a-day journal is designed to keep your mind moving, with 365 unique writing prompts that flex your writing muscles and boost your creativity. See what you can dream up as you experiment with imaginative imagery, comedic conversations, macabre mysteries, and beyond. A year's worth of writing—Try one prompt each day for a full year of writing practice or pick the prompts you like best whenever the mood strikes—it's up to you! Brush up on the basics—Hone your writing style with prompts that help you work on key skills like description, exposition, narration, dialogue, plot, and more. Write inside this book—Each prompt in this creative writing journal includes blank lines to write on, challenging you to fit your response in the suggested amount of space, and ensuring you don't need anything except a pen or pencil! Open this writing prompt journal and discover how much you can learn and create!

Download or read book Welcome to Writing Workshop written by Stacey Shubitz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman warmly welcome you to experience writing workshop for the first time or in a new light with Welcome to Writing Workshop. Through strategic routines, tips, resources, and short focused video clips, teachers can create the sights and sounds of a thriving writing workshop where: * both students and teachers are working authors * students spend most of their time writing--not just learning about it * student choice is encouraged to help create engaged writers, not compliant ones * students are part of the formative assessment process * students will look forward to writing time--not dread it. From explanations of writing process and writing traits to small-group strategy lessons and minilessons, this book will provide the know-how to feel confident and comfortable in the teaching of writers.

Download or read book Poemcrazy written by Susan G. Wooldridge and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of several recent inspirational and practical books for would-be writers, Poemcrazy is a perfect guide for everyone who ever wanted to write a poem but was afraid to try. Writing workshop leader Susan Wooldridge shows how to think, use one's senses, and practice exercises that will make poems more likely to happen.

Download or read book Creative Writing Prompt Journal written by Marie Brevil and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 Creative Writing prompts! This unique lined journal notebook is perfect for your collection of journals. It includes 50 different writing prompts, followed by plenty of room to write on at least 2 lined pages.This is ideal for creative writing enthusiasts and journaling shoppers with this inspiration-rich journal.

Download or read book 365 Creative Writing Prompts written by Writing Prompts and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST GIFT IDEA 2018 - SPECIAL PRICE- Normally $16.95 (WHILE STOCKS LAST ) Creative Writing Prompts Are you ready for new challenges guaranteed to help you improve your creativity, writing and conceptual skills in just a few short hours? With 365 creative writing prompts, you can. Remove yourself from your comfort zone, and start to explore the unchartered paths to finding new and improved writing styles to benefit you. 365 creative writing prompts is guaranteed to be the perfect writing companion. New Creative Writing Prompts

Download or read book What Prompted You DIY Blank Writing Prompt Journal written by Simple Journals and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIY Creative Writing Prompt Book for Writers and Poets This book of 60 Creative Writing Prompts was created to be an interactive writing prompt journal for writers to help you put your stories down as they come to mind. Often times writers can experience what some have called "Writers Block" but this book allows a writer to come back and dive into story ideas that they jotted down days, months or years ago. The Journal Pages can be dated so you can keep track of when you produce the prompt into a book or short story This book contains space for 60 writing prompts as well as doodle space to help flesh an idea out or draw characters as they are fresh in your mind. Then they can be used later in the creative process. As a writer myself, I created this book to help me and so now I am sharing it with the world. More stories makes for a colorful and creative life. NEED IT TO LAY FLAT? I take my books to the printers and have them take the spine off and punch holes in it so I can put it into my notebook. Write On! Simple Planners and Journals