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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...

Writer’s Journals: Three Games to Kick-Start Writers

Spark an air of possibility and play for your writers as you kick off their writer’s journals this year. Help them feel open to experimentation, excited about word play, and full of inspiration about moving the big ideas out of their hearts and heads onto...

Writerly Play: Ideas Are Only the Beginning

Early in my career as a teaching artist, I learned that games are magical. All one has to do to transform sluggish energy to excitement is walk into a classroom and speak that enchanted phrase, “Let’s play!” It didn’t matter if our focus was geometry, the...

Writing Short >> How to Start and Finish a Story in One Sitting

You're likely reading books you can't start and finish in one sitting. It only makes sense that you also want to write long stories with complex twists and turns. Want to know a secret? Writers who allow themselves to write short often build their skills faster than...

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