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Looking for Your Halloween Muse?

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What if you were to build creative writing tasks around your fun Halloween plans? Teachers and teens love to find Halloween ready-to-roll materials that young writers breakthrough ideas, wrapped in holiday fun. Below are cool writing prompts to get you started. See a brief Halloween writing task video here. Choose… Read more »

Write Halloween Stories in Haunted Hallows

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Why not convert your high school classroom or home into a Haunted Hallow where teens imagine realities such as, Lost in a Mystery Corn Maze? Or where a Scarecrow Festival springs into life as students enter and begin their Halloween inspired writing. It’s not only fun, but it sparks a… Read more »

Writing Tips for Fun & Publication

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Boost motivation by writing for real readers, rather than slog through isolated assignments for one reader only. Here are a few tips to write for fun and publication! Interview a younger reader to discover special interests, and then write a book that includes those topics. This can become a team… Read more »

#19 of 25 Writer Brain Boosters

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19. Say it Squarely but Fairly! Meta-messages blur clarity through implications that differ from words actually written. See examples What do you actually write when you really mean to write, “This topic stinks!”