Related Words - Find Words Related to Another Word Guide to Digital Writing « Voiceworks Getting Started Familiarise yourself with experimental online writing. The wackier, the weirder, the more exhilarating and genre-bending… the better! The Big Questions Why is an experimental, online platform the best home for your work? Drafting, Coding and Pitching If you are unsure of how best to code your work (or even what that means), don’t hold back from pitching us tangible ideas that we can help bring to the surface! Submitting Your Work Proofread! Reverse Dictionary and Thesaurus <div id="needs_javascript"><center><b>Note: OneLook Thesaurus requires JavaScript.</b><br /><img src="/img/a.gif?q=omg_a_user_without_js"> If you have disabled JavaScript in your browser, please <a href=" it for this site</a> or use the <a href="/?w=entersearchhere&loc=revfp_legacy">old version of the reverse dictionary</a> here.</p><p></center><div> How do I use OneLook's thesaurus / reverse dictionary? This tool lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. What are some examples? What are patterns? I'm only looking for synonyms! For some kinds of searches only the first result or the first few results are likely to be useful. Filters Your search can be refined in various ways using the filters that appear in the "Filter by..." menu on the results page. How does it work? Other ways to access this service: Is this available in any language other than English? OneLook is a service of Datamuse.
Simplify Classroom Differentiation With The New Quizalize - Quizalize Blog Discover a brand new version of Quizalize that enables you to: • Assign follow-up activities that automatically appear after quizzes • Set different videos, PDFs and web links, depending on students’ scores • Get recommendations for effective resources We’re excited to introduce a brand new version of Quizalize that makes it even easier to differentiate your teaching. Quizalize already helps you with differentiation by instantly showing you who needs help and what they need help with. Now you can automatically provide your students with support and extension activities straight after they finish quizzes. You can choose from YouTube videos, PDFs and web pages. It’s just one of many new features and improvements that are designed to save you time and improve student results. Watch a web demo of the new features by Francesco Busiello, Head of Product at Zzish: Get the right support and extension activities to students – effortlessly Access a whole library of follow-up activities One website, not two
Kurt Vonnegut Offers 8 Tips on How to Write Good Short Stories (and Amusingly Graphs the Shapes Those Stories Can Take) You can't talk about American literature in the second half of the 20th century without talking about Kurt Vonnegut. And since so many well-known writers today imbibed his influence at one point or another, you'd have to mention him when talking about 21st-century literature as well. Despite so fully inhabiting his time, not least by wickedly lampooning it, the author of Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions also had a few tendencies that put him ahead of his time. In the video above, those abilities converge to produce Vonnegut's eight bullet points for good short-story writing: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.Start as close to the end as possible.Be a sadist. Related Content:
How to Create a Powerful Antagonist: The Epic Villain Breakdown — She's Novel What are they? Mental Illness Track: Self Mental Illness is an umbrella term for any number of diseases your main character may have to face. To learn more about mental illnesses, check out my friend Faye Kirwin's amazing blog, Writerology. Doubt Doubt is a Self villain that keeps your MC from interacting with others, opening up to the ones they love, taking part in social events, and going after their dreams. And although they may recognize that their doubts are unfounded, they'll have trouble working up the confidence to overcome them. Desire Desire is a Self villain that manifest itself in forms like greed, vanity, and lust. Demons Past mistakes may lead your MC to face a Demon of guilt, shame, or regret. Religion Track: Corruption Religion plays an integral role in nearly every culture, with many people believing their religion to be a core part of who they are. Justice Judicial corruption takes place inside a society's law and order system. Education Politics Think about The Hunger Games.
Voicepods - Automatically Turn Text Into Voice Recordings Voicepods is a neat service that will create voice recordings based on the text that you write. Voicepods offers eight voices in which you can have your text read-aloud. The voice recording that is generated from your text can be listened to online and you can download it as an MP3 to use wherever MP3 playback is supported. Applications for Education I often encouraged my students to read their papers aloud or have them read aloud by someone else to spot mistakes that they didn't catch when reading silently. Shape of a Story – Revolutionary Poets Society — Spring 2018 We started with…where I begin? Last week we continued with where I’m from. Now we continue this discussion about the story of you by considering the shape of a story. Connecting events in a story The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. — Muriel Rukeyser Stories are generally considered to be a narrative of connecting events (either actual or imaginary) presented in a sequence of written or spoken words…in still or moving images. Kurt Vonnegut believed that there is only one basic shape to a story, all else is a variation. Your turn Think of a story you know well. Create a diagram showing the shape of that story. Write a poem expressing this fable from your perspective in a Google Doc. Need examples? For another example, read the lyrics from Chinese Translation by M.
Ten rules for writing fiction | Books Elmore Leonard: Using adverbs is a mortal sin 1 Never open a book with weather. If it's only to create atmosphere, and not a character's reaction to the weather, you don't want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways than an Eskimo to describe ice and snow in his book Arctic Dreams, you can do all the weather reporting you want. 2 Avoid prologues: they can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword. 3 Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue. 4 Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said" ... he admonished gravely. 5 Keep your exclamation points under control. 6 Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose". 7 Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. 8 Avoid detailed descriptions of characters, which Steinbeck covered. 10 Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. Diana Athill Margaret Atwood Roddy Doyle
Larry Ferlazzo - Online tools These include The Best Web Tools For English Language Learners (In Other Words, The Ones My Students Regularly Use) and The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites. Now, though, I think it's time to narrow them down to my choices for the "best of the best" or, in other words, an "All-Time Best" list. Here are my choices, and I hope readers will let me know if they agree, disagree, and/or think I've missed some (one key requirement is that they are all free to use). Some of the sites I list could go in multiple categories, but I have placed them in the "domains" I believe they help the most: Obviously, The British Council has tons of great resources. I'm obviously biased, but I think the weekly student interactives I create for The New York Times are very useful to English Language Learners. The Reading and Everyday Life activities from GCF LearnFree are excellent. ESL-Bits has good exercised for Intermediate English Language Learners. Mrs.
Written Communication - Say It Like You Mean It - Kitty Lusby Whether you’re blogging to express yourself, writing advertising copy, or just trying to get your point across in a business email, written communication skills are pretty much necessary in today’s world. We’ve got an interesting situation in the modern marketplace, though: Much of our communication takes place online, and therefore, much of our communication today is in writing…and writing is hard. Then again, most people don’t communicate particularly effectively while talking face to face, either, but that’s not the point. If you want to improve your writing skills and get your point across more clearly, more quickly, and more powerfully, read on. I’ve got some pro writing tips for you. The easiest way to become a better writer is to write more. Any time you work on a new skill – if you’re not good at it yet, writing is a new skill – you have to go through a learning period, and you’re going to suck at it until you learn. Hopefully. 1: Read. Read whatever you like, and read a lot of it. Day.
An Illustrated Guide to Writing Scenes and Stories The writing workshop/lecture Wonderbook: Scenes is an edited version, using as its starting point the transcript of a version presented at the Arkansas Book Festival in 2014. Both before that event and after, I gave versions of this lecture in other locations, including Shared Worlds, Clarion, and the Yale Writer’s Workshop. While keeping the core of the Arkansas version, I have added in material from the other versions and also expanded some sections based on participant questions. Writers often argue about the difference between the art of writing and the craft of writing. Every presentation has a lifespan before it kind of dies in the speaker’s mind. Choosing What You’ll Dramatize and What You Won’t Good morning. Most of what we’ll talk about today is going to be about the decisions you make more or less after your rough draft. The first thing I wanted to show you is this image, which is about how you decide what the story is in the first place. Where to Begin and Where to End