by BWW Support | Oct 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
This quarter, in my “Time to Write” craft class, we’ve been working on stakes–what makes your story matter, matter to the characters and to the reader, and matter increasingly as it goes on? Characters, questions, withholding, revelations and more revelations....
by BWW Support | Oct 21, 2015 | Uncategorized
You don’t really know what you’ve written until after you read it aloud. One of the two rules in my “Time to Write” craft classes is that you can’t apologize for your writing–something people are inclined to do before they read aloud. I tell my students, Treat...
by BWW Support | Oct 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
The year my kids started kindergarten was the same year our school added K – 3rd grades to its 4th – 8th, and so all the lower grades started together. For three years, my kids moved in a cohort with the grade above them. They were a tight-knit, unified...
by BWW Support | Oct 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
I have a friend who teaches the fourth grade, and just from the way her voice sounds on the phone when she talks about her day, I can tell she’s a wonderful teacher. Yesterday she told me about three “sentence frames” that she gave to her room of nine-year-olds to use...
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