Ideas for your Writer's Notebook
Pictures as prompts
Language art
Check out these mind maps and other types of language art!
Music to get your hand moving
Imagine the story behind the song--or a story inspired by the song--"So What" by Miles Davis.
Links to help you think
Check out these pieces of advice from professional authors. Which one (or more) resonates with you?
Write about an experience you've had in a classroom--starting with a nugget of truth and fictionalizing the rest, as Philip Levine has done in "M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942." (Audio also available.)
Practice thinking differently about verbs. Try this exercise, which comes from Natalie Goldberg's book Writing Down the Bones.
Browse the photo gallery from the Cloud Appreciation Society. (Who knew there was such a group?!) Write about what you see.
Seniors looking forward to graduation: Some thoughts to consider before you head out into the real world -- David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" talk, an excerpt from his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College
Write about an experience you've had in a classroom--starting with a nugget of truth and fictionalizing the rest, as Philip Levine has done in "M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942." (Audio also available.)
Practice thinking differently about verbs. Try this exercise, which comes from Natalie Goldberg's book Writing Down the Bones.
Browse the photo gallery from the Cloud Appreciation Society. (Who knew there was such a group?!) Write about what you see.
Seniors looking forward to graduation: Some thoughts to consider before you head out into the real world -- David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" talk, an excerpt from his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College
Paintings as prompts
What's happening in Edward Hopper's Room in New York?