Unjournaling: Daily Writing Exercises That Are Not Personal, Not Introspective, Not Boring! - Brossura

Dawn DiPrince; Cheryl Miller Thurston

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ISBN 10: 1593635915 ISBN 13: 9781593635916

Casa editrice: Prufrock Press, Inc., 2010

Riassunto

Some people just don't want to share intimate details about their thoughts, feelings and lives—at least not with others in a class or group. That's where UnJournaling comes in. All the writing prompts in this book are entirely impersonal but completely engaging—for both kids and adults.

Just a couple of examples of the 200 writing prompts on widely varied topics:

• Write a paragraph about a girl named Dot, but use no letters with a dot (in other words, no i or j).
• Why on earth would Yankee Doodle stick a feather in his cap and call it “macaroni”? Come up with a plausible explanation.

The book includes sample responses to all of the questions—a helpful tool for anyone who gets stuck with a topic and wants to see that it can be done!

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About the Author

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. And, through her autobiography writing classes, she has enjoyed teaching hundreds of adults to write their life stories. The former owner and editor of BlueSky Quarterly (a magazine that celebrates life in southeastern Colorado), DiPrince is now the Associate Director of the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado. She loves her job because nearly 70 percent of her work day is spent writing.

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. She grew up on a cantaloupe and watermelon farm in La Junta, Colorado, and now lives in Loveland, Colorado, with her husband and their pampered cats, Cassie and Sophie.

Thurston has written many books for teachers, as well as magazine articles, plays and musical shows. She received the Pacific Northwest Writers' Conference Children's Play Award for Change of Heart, and was a Colorado Book Award finalist for her book of poetry, Hide Your Ex-Lax Under the Wheaties.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Prufrock Press, Inc.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1593635915
• ISBN 13: 9781593635916
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 5916