creative writing

Presents activities and practice drills to help students build their writing skills and learn how to revise and edit what they have written, make good word choices, and explore new writing techniques.

Presents a list of seven thousand topics appropriate for high school writing projects, grouped by category of writing.

Soccer player Brian Hobble borrows a pink Easyflow pen at school and suddenly finds himself possessed with writing romantic, flowery love stories, and he is about to return the pen when he discovers Cassandra Wyman is interested in his work.

Mark Salzman chronicles his first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders, discussing what his students taught him about life.

Offers advice for fiction writers on how to bridge the gap between the story in their heads and the one that appears on the page, identifying the specific problems associated with beginnings, middles, and endings, and discussing possible solutions to those dilemmas.

A guide to writing prose, both fiction and nonfiction, and poetry.

Presents a short profile on children's writer Louis Sachar, and describes his childhood and early career, time line and list of his works, along with creative writing tips and advice on getting published.

Provides advice and exercises to enable individuals to become more confident and more competent writers.

In the summer of 1928, Lilly Belle Turner of Smyrna, Tennessee, participates in a young author's writing program, taught by Zora Neale Hurston and hosted by A'Lelia Walker in her Harlem teahouse at the height of the Harlem Renaissance.