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Showing posts with label Fiction Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction Writing. Show all posts
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Animals As Characters/Subjects: Pushing Against Gender Typing

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by Mary Quattlebaum Starting March 1 st , we’re celebrating Women’s History Month with 31 days of posts focused on improving the cli...
Monday, March 14, 2016

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

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guest post by Katherine Marsh Just after midnight, Mary Hayes crept into the kitchen of the Buffalo Asylum for Young Ladies and opened ...
Monday, August 24, 2015

SHOWING CHARACTER THROUGH ACTION

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by Claudia Mills           One of the cardinal rules of writing is “Show, don’t tell.” This means that rather than telling readers that...
Monday, June 15, 2015

HOME ALONE: THE ART OF SHORT STORY

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by Jacqueline Jules While picture books are always great writing models, short stories can be very effective, too, especially for the...
Monday, May 26, 2014

WRITING WITH EMPATHY

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guest post by Kerri Majors Pencil Tips welcomes Kerri Majors who will give us a bonus-style sneak peak at the kinds of lesson plans c...
Monday, April 28, 2014

WHAT'S THE STORY?

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by Jane Harrington I just listened to a pretty right-on lecture about fiction writing by Jenna Blum ( The Author at Work: The Art of Wr...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Inhabiting Your Character or Historic Subject

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by Mary Quattlebaum How might we bring a greater awareness of our characters or historic subjects (George Washington, Harriet Tubman) ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

SPOOKY MOMENTS--HALLOWEEN WRITING

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by Jacqueline Jules A number of years ago, an editor challenged me to write a story about goblins. I wasn't sure I could. First of ...