All Too Flat magnetic poetry and magneticpoetry.com - I have one of those magnetic fridge poetry kits in my kitchen. My family and I like to use it to come up with strange phrases, or sometimes beautiful short poems. It can be fun, it can be a serious way to find that first idea. And if you go to these sites, you can do it online, either using basic sets of words, or themed ones. (Note: You may need flash or java to use these sites properly).
'ichabod' teaching unit A fantastically useful Teaching Unit for Ichabod Hart & the Lighthouse Mystery. Click on the link to download in Word document format (53k).
'bridget' teaching unit An exhaustive 15 page Upper Primary English Teaching Unit for A Boat for Bridget. Click on the link to download in Word document format (167k).
ideas Where do
you get ideas from? It's one of the questions I'm
asked all the time, and this tutorial talks a
little about how to turn a simple idea into a
story.it's
just like music Writing, just like music?
Sure it is. Let me tell you how.
editing
your work (the hard way) It's radical, but if you
give it a go you might find it worth the effort.
sudden
endings So Captain Mack (or any of
my other books, for that matter) weren't all that
tidy at the end. Why not? Well, I think
I can explain...
how many words? "How many hours a day do you write?" People ask me this all the time. And I'm going to tell you.
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