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Where Foreshadowing and Symbolism Meet: Adumbration

By Charity Singleton Craig 10 Comments

Train tracks adumbration

Create layers and depth in your writing by trying the technique of adumbration, which occurs at the intersection of foreshadowing and symbolism. Charity Singleton Craig explains how.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, writing prompts, Writing Tips

Read Like a Writer: Mary Oliver’s “Upstream”

By Charlotte Donlon 8 Comments

Reading Like a Writer Mary Oliver Upstream

Charlotte Donlon invites us to “read like a writer,” discovering both a rich past and an immediate present in the present tense writing of Mary Oliver’s “Upstream.”

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Read Like a Writer, writing prompts, Writing Tips

How to Start a Revolution in a Reading Notebook

By Megan Willome 31 Comments

How can you start a revolution, one little step at a time? It might just begin by keeping a reading notebook. Discover how.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, L.L. Barkat, Literacy for Life, Patron Only, Reading and Books, Writing Tips

Teach It: How Do They Tell a Story? First, You Listen

By Callie Feyen 18 Comments

Literacy specialist Callie Feyen says the best way to help children write is first to listen.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Children's Authors, Children's Stories, Emotional Literacy, Literacy for Life, Literacy Starts With Love, Play, Teach Reading, writing prompt, writing prompts

Reading in the Wild: October’s Pages

By Megan Willome 13 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your October pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her October good reads.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Children's Authors, Classic Books, Fiction, Literacy for Life, Reading in the Wild

Reading in the Wild: August’s pages

By Megan Willome 25 Comments

Come learn the secrets of being a wild reader. Or just share your August pages. Megan Willome leads the way, with her August goodreads.

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The Word-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Writing

By Charity Singleton Craig 22 Comments

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Charity Singleton Craig applies the tidying principles of the KonMari organization method to your writing. Will it change your life?

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Writing Coach Podcast Series – Fill the Gap

By Ann Kroeker 5 Comments

puny flower - Coaching Writers to Fill the Gap

Ann Kroeker, Writing Coach, encourages you to keep at your writing, even when you feel intimidated by the Greats and see a gap between your skill level and theirs. As you fill the gap, you’ll learn to write.

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The Writing Life: The Writer’s Delusion and Telling it Slant

By Charity Singleton Craig 20 Comments

writers delusion house on the hill

How does a writer tell the truth in her writing when it doesn’t line up perfectly with the facts? Charity Singleton Craig considers the writer’s delusion.

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Artist Date: A February March

By Will Willingham 9 Comments

Artist Date February March

Want to open up your creativity? Maybe you need an Artist’s Date. Bundle up and take a winter’s walk on the ice with LW Lindquist.

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Become a Better Writer: I Am Not a Robot

By Charity Singleton Craig 44 Comments

become a better writer not a robot

In this look at automation in creative work, Charity Singleton Craig ponders how being like a robot can help you become a better writer, and whether she should plan a career shift toward being personal assistant to a robot.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

4 Self-Editing Tips: Bring a Paint Can and Brush

By Charity Singleton Craig 4 Comments

writing tips self-editing

Charity Singleton Craig sees self-editing like the touch-up work after painting a room. Come with a paint can for 4 self-editing tips.

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Revamping The Raven—and Other Writing Mischief

By L.L. Barkat 16 Comments

Moleskin Notebook and Coffee Writing tweetspeakpoetry.com

What does it mean to have a well-rounded writing approach? It might require a dog, a cup of tea, and Poe’s “The Raven.”

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, English Teaching Resources, writer's group resources, Writing Tips

A Poetry Dare for National Poetry Month

By Will Willingham 128 Comments

Poetry Dare standing on the wall

Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining in our first ever large group Poetry Dare. Read a poem a day with us, with the daily offerings from Every Day Poems or a choose a poet to read for the month.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Poetry Dare

How to Write a Poem (or a Hundred): The Poets

By L.L. Barkat 17 Comments

Red Poetry How to Write a Poem

How to write a poem? It might take more than paper and pen (or keyboard). Get the best “in” on how to take your poems to the next level.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, How to Write a Poem

Memoir Notebook: The Bright Orders

By Anthony Connolly 16 Comments

connolly memoir notebook

By way of our Memoir Notebook, we want you to meander, get caught up, find yourself taken to places you hadn’t intended to go (but are so glad, in the end, that you went). Today, Wm. Anthony Connolly talks about ghosts and Olympia Café.

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Become a Better Writer: 5 Things the Theater Taught Me About Writing

By Dena Dyer 14 Comments

become a better writer lessons from the theatre

Dena Dyer explores lessons she learned about how to become a better writer through her work in the theater.

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3 Rules for Pretending to Be a Writer

By Charity Singleton Craig 6 Comments

child's play be a writer

What can children’s play teach you about how to be a writer? It can teach you how to pretend, which maybe a step in your writing journey.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Writing Life, Writing Tips

The Writing Life: Setting Limits to Become a Better Writer

By Charity Singleton Craig 26 Comments

writing life setting limits

Do you need to set limits in your writing life in order to focus on writing? Charity Singleton Craig sees the irony, and the need to focus.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Writing Life, Writing Tips

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