Here's the link to your online anthology:
http://youngauthorscamp2007anthology.blogspot.com/
Here's the link to the Bluebonnet Writing Project Blog where our podcasts are:
http://www.txbluebonnetwp.org/bluebonnet/Blog/Blog.html
Enjoy!
Friday, June 8, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
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BEAT Writer's Block
1. Have another person make up a title, and you write a poem, story, play, etc. that goes with that title.
2. Open the dictionary, and use that word as an inspiration to the story.
3. Create word banks: have your writer friends write down 10 of their favorite words. Cut them up and put them in a box. Shake the box and pick a word or words. Use the word(s) in your writing.
4. The Best way to prepare for TAKS Testing: Write more often, use description, concentrate voice...
5. Brainstorm and always write down ideas even if you don't use it at that time, you can use it later.
6. Listen to music, and respond to what you hear.
7. Read a famous quotation and use it as a starting point.
8. Write about your favorite things or your least favorite things.
9. Read a story or book-----this can serve as a good starting point.
10. Study things that you are interested in and write about it!!
11. Think of anything or ask someone.
12. Use your imagination.
13. Look on the computer for ideas.
14. Make a continuation or prequel of a piece you have already written.
15. Look at the name on paint swatches for inspiring names and words.
2. Open the dictionary, and use that word as an inspiration to the story.
3. Create word banks: have your writer friends write down 10 of their favorite words. Cut them up and put them in a box. Shake the box and pick a word or words. Use the word(s) in your writing.
4. The Best way to prepare for TAKS Testing: Write more often, use description, concentrate voice...
5. Brainstorm and always write down ideas even if you don't use it at that time, you can use it later.
6. Listen to music, and respond to what you hear.
7. Read a famous quotation and use it as a starting point.
8. Write about your favorite things or your least favorite things.
9. Read a story or book-----this can serve as a good starting point.
10. Study things that you are interested in and write about it!!
11. Think of anything or ask someone.
12. Use your imagination.
13. Look on the computer for ideas.
14. Make a continuation or prequel of a piece you have already written.
15. Look at the name on paint swatches for inspiring names and words.
Cracking Open Sentences
It was a wet day.
Revised and Cracked Open:
It was a humid and stormy day. It was raining cats and dogs. The trees’ leaves had been ripped off by the previous day’s storm. The monsoon-like wind was now picking them up like feathers and they were being buffeted down the street. The storm was booming thunder and lightning like pounding a bass drum. I was soaked with water to my bones. I could feel the wind spraying my skin with jets of icy rain.
Revised and Cracked Open:
It was a humid and stormy day. It was raining cats and dogs. The trees’ leaves had been ripped off by the previous day’s storm. The monsoon-like wind was now picking them up like feathers and they were being buffeted down the street. The storm was booming thunder and lightning like pounding a bass drum. I was soaked with water to my bones. I could feel the wind spraying my skin with jets of icy rain.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Don't Forget these Very Important Blogging Rules
Here are some friendly reminders to getting the most out of your blog:
1) For security reasons, do not use your last name anywhere in your blog.
2) Remember that updating your blog may take a few minutes so be patient, and check back later.
3) Use netiquette.
4) When commenting on writing, please use the Group Response Guidelines we discussed.
5) Stay safe: only allow invited members to view your blog.
1) For security reasons, do not use your last name anywhere in your blog.
2) Remember that updating your blog may take a few minutes so be patient, and check back later.
3) Use netiquette.
4) When commenting on writing, please use the Group Response Guidelines we discussed.
5) Stay safe: only allow invited members to view your blog.
Authors' Chair and Response Guidelines
APPROPRIATE, CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS
• Be respectful and considerate of the writer's feelings.
• Use "I" statements.
• Offer suggestions, not commands.
• Raise questions from a reader's point of view, points that may not have occurred to the writer.
• Phrase comments clearly and carefully so that the writer can easily understand what needs to be improved.
• Make sure comments are constructive and specific (not "This paper is confusing. It keeps saying the same things over and over again" but rather "It sounds like paragraph five makes the same point as paragraphs 2 and 3.").
• Avoid turning the writer's paper into YOUR paper.
Final tip: Although it might not be on the feedback form, you can always ask the writer if there is something he or she wants you to comment specifically on in the paper.
• Be respectful and considerate of the writer's feelings.
• Use "I" statements.
• Offer suggestions, not commands.
• Raise questions from a reader's point of view, points that may not have occurred to the writer.
• Phrase comments clearly and carefully so that the writer can easily understand what needs to be improved.
• Make sure comments are constructive and specific (not "This paper is confusing. It keeps saying the same things over and over again" but rather "It sounds like paragraph five makes the same point as paragraphs 2 and 3.").
• Avoid turning the writer's paper into YOUR paper.
Final tip: Although it might not be on the feedback form, you can always ask the writer if there is something he or she wants you to comment specifically on in the paper.
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