Post on 05-Jan-2016
Read STORIES.
Read expressively.
Daydreaming
Writing: Telling thestories I’ve imaginedin written word
Mrs. Hagen
Read EVERYTHING out loud.
Buffalo State College
PROCESS
Baumeler
SHOW UP every day
Process
PRE-First Draft
Iowa
Chronicle of Higher Education
Writing: Telling the story I’ve lived inwritten word.
Iowa State
CRITIQUE
What’s working?What could make it stronger?
MISSION
We are here to help each other become our best possible selves.
Make a safe place for creating and sharing.
FUNNY
The Dungeon of Deadly Dullness
The Yellow Prison of Propulsion
Just for fun. Just for me.Writing: Telling the story I most wanted to hearin written word.
The Workshop
I was the worst studentin the class, and…
My job, at first, is to imagine the story. Later,it is to find and choose andwrite the words that best tell that story.
Sometimes I’m NOT writing for over 50%of my time spent writing.
STORY, STORY, STORY
Everything we learn about writing serves story.
Make a safe place for creating and sharing.
Read STORIES.Read expressively.
Encourage STORY-WRITING.
Show and demonstratePROCESS as well as product/excellence.
PRE-First Draft
Give them time over time. Teach them to show upevery day.
Read everything OUT LOUD.
Edit/Critique/Appreciateas a community helping each of its members become their best possible selves.
I don’t know if the best writers are the people whohave the greatest facility with words.
MAYBE the best writers are the people who have the best stories to tell, and make the commitmentto do the hard work of writing them down.