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Think about the things that are important to you. Perhaps you care about creativity, family relationships, your career, or having a sense of humour. Pick two or three of these values and write a few sentences about why they are important to you.
15-minute writing exercise closes the gender gap in university-level physics | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Creativity
mesostomatic: you too can have nothing to say, and say it.
what does this thing do? the mesostomatic will try to find the letters in your spine on the web page you give it. if it cannot find the letters, or it runs out of material in the middle of writing the mesostic, it will use any links found on the page given to try to obtain more data, and spider out in search of complete data. for best results, use a fast website that has a lot of links on the page.
A poetic form is halfway between a set of constraints and a set of instructions. Some of these constraints/instructions are formal (e.g., rhymes, number of syllables) and some are semantic (e.g., what the poem has to be “about”). “The really inspired person is never inspired, but always inspired.” What does this mean?
Adam Parrish · Poetic form. Classes and objects.
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Glum Councillors
OK … its been a while … but as there are so many Glum Councillors across the UK today …. lets have another go at this. So let’s meet Nottingham’s Cllr Gary Long who was surprised by a tumbling lamp post whilst out delivering leaflets. Cllr Gary above is pictured above in his running kit (my guess is that it has rarely been used for it’s stated purpose). Presumably the sporty outfit will allow him to make a quick getaway should another calamity arise… No stranger to danger Cllr Gary reveals “I frequently get attacked by letterboxes and am not keen on big dogs but I have never been attacked by a lamp post before,”.
Writing & the Teacher - HumBox
This resource contains a set of activities that use 'Imaginative writing' in various ways as a tool for thinking and learning. Like many of the resources in The Pool, it aims to breach the barriers between subject thinking and educational thinking. The resource is made up of an introduction and two different activities: Activity 1: helps teachers and supporters of learning to explore the way in which their values and experience inform their minute-to-minute pedagogic decisions. Activity 2: involves identifying metaphors for teaching and then exploring them in practical ways.
Save The Words
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There are three types of activities, appropriate for English lecturers working in groups or as individuals, in this resource. Their topics are employability, transition from A level, and getting the ‘delicate balance’ right between literature, language and Creative Writing when designing an English programme for today’s students. These activities rely in part on an interview with Professor Marion Wynne-Davies (University of Surrey).
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What is this about? This wiki is a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction. Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clichés .
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sent 1 year into the future, to April 23rd, 2012 hopefully we're still bestfriends. Dear FutureLily.
FutureMe.org: e-mail your future self
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As of Mar 25 2012, 12:39:32 pm EDT there have been 5780 Five Card Flickr Stories created from the pool of 3749 flickr photos tagged with "5cardflickr"I Write Like
Check which famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them with those of the famous writers. Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets).It's funny how there are so many creative writing games out there to be found, but when you're in that writer's block mode, you just can't seem to find or think of any of them. Writing games are fun and easy. They immerse you fingers first into writing or typing your ideas away.
Creative Writing Games - Writing Your Way Out of Writer's Block
PIZZAZ, Creative Writing & Storytelling, Opp-Beckman
Description for this website: Simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts for: Poetry | Fiction | Bag of Tricks .by Ali Hale I’ve been thinking recently about the ways in which writing and gaming are mingled online, after a Daily Writing Tips reader wrote in to introduce us to a site which he and his brother have recently launched, called “Vote Pages”. This site aims to make the writing process both collaborative and game-like: A votepage is a piece of creative writing like a screenplay, novel, poem, etc. where one person starts writing and then lets other writers enter submissions to continue the piece. In order to make it interesting and fun, the submissions to continue the Votepage are voted on by other writers.