Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises That Are Not Personal, Not Introspective, Not Boring! Author: Visit Amazon's Cheryl Miller Thurston Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1877673706 | Format: EPUB
Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises That Are Not Personal, Not Introspective, Not Boring! Description
About the Author
Cheryl Miller Thurston is the president, founder and editor of Cottonwood Press, Inc., which she started in 1986 with a $2000 loan from a friend. Before that she was an English teacher for 13 years, grades seven through university level.
Dawn DiPrince loves to teach writing. She has helped many people, from age 7 to 87, to become writers. She has taught poetry, journalism and other writing to middle school students at a local after-school program.
- Age Range: 12 - 17 years
- Grade Level: 7 - 12
- Paperback: 108 pages
- Publisher: Prufrock Press; 3.2.2006 edition (January 1, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1877673706
- ISBN-13: 978-1877673702
- Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Writing and reading came to me about as naturally as breathing. Even as a child I read books the way other people eat popcorn, and when I was about 8 a family friend had a tee-shirt made for me that said "I'd rather be writing my novel" (actually, I had the plots for THREE different novels going before I was 10).
Therefore, I sometimes struggle to teach writing BECAUSE it came so natural to me. Want me to write somethin'? Sure! Like Ishmael I cry "Get me a condor's quill! Get me Vesuvius' crater for an inkwell! Friends, hold my arms!"
Until I remember that there are a great deal of students at every level of education who struggle with writing for various reasons: it's boring, it's too tedious and confusing to create and then animate characters, English grammar is boring and difficult, or--as Ms. DiPrince and Ms. Thurston point out in the introduction to "UnJournaling"--it's too personal.
Actually, I hadn't thought about that last one. Not everyone is comfortable sharing details about their lives with classmates or teachers, and yet that's one of the most popular writing genres out there: "tell me a story about a time when..."
That's where UnJournaling comes in. With 200 different prompts, excercises and story starters, none of which are personal, even the most reluctant writers can be drawn out of their shell.
What's more, these aren't all just some story starter ideas, most are downright challenging, starting right off with #1: "write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, but use no letters with dots (i, j)" and moving right into #49 "you can use 25 words--no more--for a billboard advertising a product called `Zebra Wink'. Sell your product with those 25 words."
The authors are clever.
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