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How to Turn Your Story Questions Into Writing Prompts!

By L.L. Barkat 2 Comments

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After reading a good story, you can follow these three easy steps to turn your story questions into writing prompts. See 5 sample prompts based on the fairy tale ‘The Golden Dress,’ to help you on your writing way!

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Ten Great Writing Playlists & Poetry Prompts

By T.S. Poetry 3 Comments

top ten poetry playlists

Do you have a favorite playlist you listen to while you write poetry? We’re featuring ten of our favorite themed writing playlists.

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Writing Prompt: How To Be Grateful

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

How do you be grateful, especially when it’s the worst possible time for gratitude? Author Callie Feyen talke you through it (with scones).

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Writing Prompt: Open Wide Your Wounded, Wonderful Heart

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

What book helps you write from your wounded and wonderful heart? Author Callie Feyen discusses teaching “Walk Two Moons.”

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Poetry Prompt: Start Your Writing with Inspiration

By Callie Feyen 4 Comments

How does a writer start writing? With inspiration. For Callie Feyen, that begins with a poem.

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Poetry Prompt: Poems on the Writing Life

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Chase Water, Cannock, England

Poems on the Writing Life start with life—whether real or imagined. Take a walk with author Callie Feyen and find your “writing life” poems!

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Poetry Prompt: Writing Letters of Three

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

red toadstool letters to the forest

Join author Callie Feyen for a poetry prompt as she thinks about an idea for teaching, but chooses instead to pick hydrangeas.

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Free Writing Mini Series

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Get this fabulous FREE poetry prompt mini-series, based on the popular book How to Write a Poem. And get inspired. (Share your poems with the community!)

The Writing Life Workshop: A Practice That Sustains

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Pink Flowers Spring Up

The writing life must be just that—a life—if it is to sustain. But how do you develop that life on a practical level? Or, how do you jumpstart it if it seems to have slipped away? Come together with an encouraging community and stir new writing habits and inspiration, in a workshop that will show you the ways.

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Writing Prompt: December

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

December can be a dark, lonely month. Join author Callie Feyen as she finds beauty in the last month of the year and prompts us to write along.

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On Being a Writer: 12 Simple Habits for a Writing Life that Lasts

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Is your writing life all it can be? Let this book act as your personal coach, to explore the writing life you already have and the writing life you wish for, and close the gap between the two. Gain insights through helpful stories from the authors’ established writing careers. Explore twelve simple (but vital) habits—through […]

Writing Your Letters Workshop—Starts Monday!

By T.S. Poetry 17 Comments

flower memories

Take one or take all three, in this “writing from life” fall workshop series with Laura Lynn Brown, where we’ll explore writing our objects, our rooms, and our letters to others or ourselves.

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Starts Today—The Making of a Heroine: Writing Workshop

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pink rose making

Come along with author Callie Feyen and explore the making of a heroine in stories and yourself. A reading and writing workshop that will take you forward, in writing and life!

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Poetry Prompt: The five senses reading and writing poetry

By Callie Feyen 11 Comments

Instead of asking whether you’ll succeed, what if you asked yourself, “Would I like to try?” It might lead to less worry and more play. And more poetry.

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Writing, Paper & Quills: Catalog Poems Prompt

By Callie Feyen 8 Comments

Whether you prefer writing longhand or typing on the computer, be on the look out for flashes of beauty as we write catalog poems.

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Writing, Paper & Quills: Ode to a Planner Prompt

By Callie Feyen 9 Comments

Whether you are a planner or prefer to fly by the seat of your pants, author Callie Feyen has some thoughts on the practice and poetry of keeping a planner.

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Writing Toward Joy Workshop—Starts Monday!

By Megan Willome 18 Comments

Colorful Pots

Writing toward Joy is like writing toward North; we’ll never reach North, nor will we ever reach Joy, but when we write ourselves in that direction, a bit of Joy happens. Join us for this inspiring workshop!

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Writing Prompt: The Alphabet—Start With Who You Are

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Don't forget your essence as you learn new things.

Callie Feyen tells a touching and inspiring story about one daughter who sings her way to amazingness. Come sing your way, too, through writing a memory of something you learned with passion.

Filed Under: Blog, Learn to Read, Literacy, Literacy for Life, poetry prompt, poetry teaching resources, The Alphabet, writer's group resources, writing prompt, writing prompts

Writing Prompt: Play With Your Food

By Callie Feyen 5 Comments

Rainbow Carrots Play With Your Food Writing Prompt

Creative nonfiction writer, Callie Feyen, takes help from poet Tania Runyan to write food poetry. Come along and craft your own poem or story—purple carrots optional!

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Writing Prompt: Beach Metaphors

By Callie Feyen 28 Comments

Treasures found at the Beach

How is an exploration on the beach like an experience in a new school, a new town, or a new phase of life? Come write with a beach metaphor!

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