What is POV? What are objective versus involved narrators? Learn how to use points of view well in your story with this complete guide.
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Manipulation Tactics To Look Out For. False Concern: "I heard you were sick! I'm so sorry. Can you help me with __?" Mental health quotes.
Writers Write is your one-stop writing resource. Use these cheat sheets to help you show a character's state of mind when you're writing body language.
This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and
Learn from Susan Donlan, Marian Salzman and Kathy Krenger. Ragan’s Top Women in Communications Awards is one of our most prestigious programs, saluting the women who embody the past, present and future of the discipline; whose innovations have the power to shape workplaces and employee experience; and whose efforts reach across their organizations and far […]
A summary of the comprehensive outlining method developed by Youtuber and writer, Kat O’Keeffe.
Creative Writing Worksheet – Politics (PDF) No subject could be less dear to my heart than politics, and in consequence I find myself immensely impressed by writers who create intricate political intrigue in their stories. On one end of the spectrum are science-fiction authors like Lois McMaster Bujold and Anne McCaffrey who invent the political systems of different planets, and on…
Learn how to develop a story and read ten steps to a plot that has structure, momentum and the ingredients readers love.
Know how to write a book. This is a comprehensive guide for all beginners to become writers and authors, either through traditional or self-publishing.
There’s nothing quite like a really memorable villain to add drama to a story! Who can forget Count Fosco, or Moriarty, or Sauron? Use this worksheet to craft the perfect villain. Click Here to Download This Worksheet (PDF) If you’d like a more well-rounded villain, you might consider plotting their character arc. You can also…
Conflict in Literature
“#DiagramoftheDay: The Hero's Journey. What do you think: To which extent could this be an inspiration for service journey maps? #servicedesign #journeymapping #userjourney”
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Have a chart I developed for visualizing the disposition of your character! This is partly inspired by a chart I saw of Aristotle’s Golden Mean, which is a system he had for developing good character,...
Writer Worksheet – Writing Mastermind (PDF) If you could get all of your favourite authors (living or dead) around a table and ask them for advice, what would they tell you? Let’s find out! :)
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In this blog post, read about my best teaching strategies to teach writing narrative endings. Grab all the freebies to help you teach.
I finally have our Reader and Writing Notebooks finished and up and running!! SO excited! I loved using scrapbook paper last year, but I just couldn’t find a pack of colorful paper this year that I loved… everything had either the wrong colors or the wrong patterns! I know, I’m picky! Plus, it took time to […]
When some students are asked to explain whether or not an author has fully defended the ideas written in text, some students do not know what to say. This chart will help. It lists and describes the different types of fallacies that writers and speakers make.Click Here To Access This Freebie
Creating a scene list changed my novel-writing life, and doing the same will change yours too. Includes examples of the scene lists from famous authors.
Are you a homeschooling mom? Tricia Goyer shares 6 activities you can do with your writers' club
Download This Writing Worksheet (PDF) When it comes to writing dialogue, you could do worse than follow the rules of Just a Minute: no hesitation, no repetition, no deviation. Theatre scripts provide excellent inspiration for good dialogue, being composed of little else, and having been written with speech at the forefront, without film’s excessive reliance on visual…
Reviewing hero’s journey examples can simplify this concept and aid in understanding. Explore each step of the journey and clear examples.
I am back with a freebie! There are so many different instances in which a comma should be used. I have just released a handy student reference chart that students can attach inside of their student notebooks or place inside of a folder.Click Here To Access It.
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Are your fictional characters falling flat? There might be some crucial elements that you're missing.
This PDF gives several "bold beginnings" to stories and prompt writing. It is modeled off a story I made up about a group of friends that ventures into a creepy forest, although you could make it fit any writing prompt or theme you're working with. The packet includes: ~The story that models Bold Beginnings/paragraph starters and Catchy Conclusions Story Starter examples included: ~Onomatopoeia ~Snapshot Setting ~Snapshot Character ~Foreshadowing ~Alliteration ~Simile ~Question ~Action/Suspense ~Metaphor ~Personification Catchy Conclusions Included: ~Summarizing main ideas ~Simile or Metaphor ~Non-Famous quote ~Famous quote
Creative Writing Worksheet – Scene Writing (PDF) Here is a worksheet I needed to write for myself this week! Often when you create an outline, you know what needs to happen when, but not necessarily how the action should unfold, or in what way you should relate it. This worksheet will help you brainstorm some…
There’s nothing quite like a really memorable villain to add drama to a story! Who can forget Count Fosco, or Moriarty, or Sauron? Use this worksheet to craft the perfect villain. Click Here to Download This Worksheet (PDF) If you’d like a more well-rounded villain, you might consider plotting their character arc. You can also…
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month—write a 50K word novel during November) starts today, and while I plan to continue blogging throughout NaNo, I wanted to make sure I gave you something good to keep you happy during my crazy month. *smile* Of course, whether or not you’d define today’s post as anything good might depend […]
Joseph Cambell’s The Hero’s Journey: Summary of the Steps Adapted from Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI) Maricopa Community Colleges URL: (Scroll to bottom of page for…
"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening."
When we decided to homeschool three years ago I really had a desire to make character training part of our homeschool curriculum. I felt that teaching our children to have good character was just …
“Sandra is really moody today, she must be on her rags.” These kind of comments are still really common, and not very helpful. The stereotypes about a woman being guided solely by her hormones - unable to regulate her own behavior and a bit 'crazy' at certain times of the month - have long been used an excuse to denigrate women in general, and are scientifically well off the mark.
Morphology and syntax are an integral part of linguistics. They are subdivisions of the study of languages and together with phonetics, semantics and phonology contribute to the understanding of how a language is formed. Morphology
This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and
Creative Writer Worksheet – Writing Study Guide (PDF) This week marks the end of our year of creative writer worksheets. From a multitude of possible topics I had to choose one last worksheet, and here it is! I hope this worksheet will serve as a reminder to keep studying and improving yourself as a writer. There’s always more to…
Expanding Sentences Anchor Chart and Mini-Lesson
Diagramming sentences helps kids see English grammar at-a-glance. It's easier to practice analyzing English parts of speech on the diagram charts and worksheets.
