This 5:13 minute talk is not only funny, but could help a writer to use the information in writing the difference between female and male characters.
MARCH-ing Books to Kids
Choices
What Did You Start Writing?
When you first started writing, what form did you use–short stories, poetry, memoir, or a novel? In middle school, I chose short stories and I still like to write them. Next I wrote a few novels, and then poetry. In the afternoon writing class I teach, we are writing a Haiku twice a month based […]
Today’s online writing groups’ poetry and story exercises: 25 February 2015
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Quote by Grandma Moses
A Good Day’s Work — Grandma Moses I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, […]
The First Page
A reader, editor, or agent often gives a first page three or four seconds before closing the book or tossing the submitted page onto the notorious slush pile. What do we have to squeeze into those few seconds? We have to grab the reader’s interest immediately, usually with writing something active not passive. Ground the […]