This very funny and practical writing guide helps you find the potential for stories in your own life.
STORYWRITING FOR KIDS HOW TO
And be sure to check out How to write Myths, Folktales and Fairytales to get you ready for our Summer Reading challenge.īut maybe you aren’t much of a reader? Then give a listen to Writing Radar from Newbery award winning author Jack Gantos. They cover both fiction & nonfiction, as well as biography, poetry, and speech writing. Real authors, editors, and illustrators work with you in online videos and workshops. Scholastic also has some great resources in their Writing with Writers Workshops. You can also check out his online Tips for Young Authors. Written in a very straightforward manner, and with help from Andrea and A.J., two of the characters from the My Weird School series, this book is full of fun and good advice. He also helps you avoid common grammatical pitfalls and spelling problems. In My Weird Writing Tips, the very funny Dan Gutman, author of the My Weird School series, walks you through the basics of writing and revising stories. She also helps you figure out what to do if you get stuck, and offers some writing exercises to get your imagination soaring. Newbery Honor author and master of fairy-tales Gail Carson Levine shows you how to get terrific ideas for stories, how to invent great beginnings and endings, how to write sparkling dialogue, and how to develop memorable characters in her book Writing Magic. Whether the stories you create are long or short doesn’t matter-what matters is that you have the power to take people to other places and times with your words alone.īut how do you become one of those powerful word people? You learn from the masters, that’s how! And your library is where the words of the masters live. What’s even better is that we can use our own imaginations to create those places and take other people there with our own writing. One of the very best things about books is that they can take us to amazing places without having to ever leave home.
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