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Find new ways to get your students excited about writing and help them discover their own voice and a passion for the written word. Use the National Novel Writing Month as a gateway into the world of Fiction Writing in an effort to get students hooked on the idea of telling their own stories through writing. These skills can then be leveraged into their regular course work. The skills that they re developing in the fiction realm can translate into writing for content classes.
10 Writing Communities
10 Writing Communities
These are Writer's Digest 2018 picks for the top online writing communities. These resources will provide you with great tips, advice and the support of other writers.
These are Writer's Digest 2018 picks for the top online writing communities. These resources will provide you with great tips, advice and the support of other writers.
Alternate Formate / Medium
Alternate Formate / Medium
Sometimes the issue with getting students to write is not the process of writing, but the tools and medium that you have chosen. Try looking at other ways of getting your students to communicate and express ideas that involve the writing process. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg in interesting ways of getting students excited and motivated about communicating, writing, and developing their own voice. Explore the resources below and apply what we have been discussing in relation to writing to each of these and help your students get excited about creation.
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month
Explore the month long event that gets people to write an entire novel in just 30 days. Sound impossible, explore this information, resources, and tools to help get your students motivated to tell their own story in their own voice and enjoy the struggle. This is a fun, free, activity and resources geared to everyone, from the beginning writer to the seasoned professional. Have a story, now is your chance to write it down. Join Us!
Blackout Poetry
Blackout Poetry
"The words for blackout poems are already written on the page, but it’s up to the blackout poet to bring new meaning and life to these words.
Blackout poems can be created using the pages of old books or even articles cut from yesterday’s newspaper. Using the pages of an existing text, blackout poets isolate then piece together single words or short phrases from these texts to create lyrical masterpieces." Taken from "Blackout Poetry" by John DePasquale, April 15, 2016
Digital Self Publishing
Digital Self Publishing
Article detailing some of the pros and cons of the major self publishing websites as well as some things to keep in mind when you are choosing a self publisher for your work.
One of the most popular self publishing sites that can be used to create paper books from your or your students writings. Pricing varies as well as print on demand.
The second of the most popular self publishing sites that can be used to create paper books from your or your students writings. Pricing varies as well as print on demand.
Open Source Self Publishing Website. Post up work and illicit readers to comment and critique on your story. Popular with student but some issues with copyrights and this is an open source site.
If students are using Wattpad or plan to have them read this article about copy-write and the issues that can arise from using Open Source Sites to publish your work.
Google Resources for Writers
Google Resources for Writers
Advanced Docs ConfidentialBecome a Google Docs master with this next level training
Make a table of contents for your Google Doc turning it into a book to be shared.
Help fro young writer with brainstorming and the first steps of the writing process
More tools from for the writer. Student Data Issues may apply
Writing a screenplay with this add on can help turn your Doc into a Blockbuster.
Mindmaping Add On that can help with plot and character development.
Distraction Free Writing Tools
Distraction Free Writing Tools
Still More Resources for Writers
Still More Resources for Writers
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