Revision: Three Games to See Writing Through Fresh Eyes
One of my most delightful discoveries about using games to teach writers was the discovery that games go far beyond idea generation. One unexpected beauty of interactive games is the ability to model the questions and experimentation that revision requires. Writers...
Pesky Punctuation: Three Games to Help Writers Master Mechanics
In games, the rules are part of what makes playing fun. What if you could bring that same sense of possibility to your writers’ attitude about commas, punctuation and sentence structure? In today’s live session, we’ll explore three lively games to help your writers...
Word Choice: Three Games to Bring Joy to Word-Play
Painters use paint, brushes, and canvas. Writers use words. How can we help our writers to see their medium for what it is, an artistic tool? Let’s play around with words and fall in love with the way they sound and feel. In today’s live session, we’ll explore three...
Narrative: Three Games to Help Writers Identify Small-Moment Stories
Help your writers discover their personal wealth of experiences that can be transformed into small moment stories. We all know what it’s like to face a blank page, stuck, when we’re asked to write about our own lives. Surely, something interesting has happened to us?...
