Tag: writing tip
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Postcards from Mars
March 2021 Imagine you are an alien from another planet and you travel to earth. You see kids playing basketball. How would you describe it? You taste a cheese sandwich. How would you describe that? I gave West fifth graders the following challenge: choose an object and then describe it as if you are an…
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Question from 5th Grader
Hello! I am a 5th grade student at Munson Elementry, and I am writing a series of books. I am still working on the rough draft of the 1st book, and I’m having some problems with writing the following; the many mysteries that the reader isn’t supposed to know exists, finding the perfect traits for…
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Hearing through New Ears
At the 2013 Golden Globes, Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) thanked a group of friends to whom he reads his scenes aloud. “You don’t tell me what I’m doing wrong…” he said. “Reading it to you helps me to hear it through your ears.” So important! But kind of hard to find friends who have the…
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What Should I Write?
Writers who want to cross that threshold from amateur to professional often ask whether they should focus their attention on a project that seems marketable or write whatever they want to write. Look at it this way…whatever you write might not get published, even if you believe it is a marketable idea; so why not…