The end of June I’ll submit everyone’s titles to a committee for a vote. There’s a few weeks left to enter. The contest is open to everyone, poet or not, writer or not, tweeter or not. Click on Contests to read the poem and reply.
Favorite Hero or Heroine
Who is your favorite literary hero or heroine? Why?
Carl Jung Quote
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung Jung’s quote is a nice visual for character writing.
A Teacher Learns Part III
Here are the last four lines from Author Unknown about what she learned her first year of teaching. Thank you, Kristen, for sharing this paper with us and thanks to all the teachers out there who align with Author Unknown. “I didn’t know that the sound of children’s laughter could drown out the sound of […]
A Teacher Learns Part II
In my last post, I wrote four of the twelve lines regarding a teacher’s classroom experience by Author Unknown titled, “I Didn’t Know”. Here are the next four lines, and tomorrow I’ll post the final four lines. “I didn’t know that I would become such a scavenger, and that teaching materials would feel like pure […]
A Teacher Learns
The author is unknown, but a teacher intern I observed last night gave me 12 comments titled “I Didn’t Know”. They resonated with me since I was a classroom teacher for more than twenty-five years. I’ll post four at a time. I didn’t know that years of school and a college degree would be of […]
The Character’s Mysterious Future
In WRITING EMOTIONAL IMPACT, Karl Iglesias tells writers to tap into the reader’s curiosity, anticipation and uncertainty with surprises and a strong dilemma. To create a mysterious future, show surprises in the character’s reactions, behaviors, dialogue, or whatever is unpredictable but consistent with the attitudes and desires of the character. Another reason to make a […]