100 Ways to Say “Great!” Here’s the next in my Ways to Say series. Sometimes it’s just not enough to tell someone they are great. Or maybe you are a writing teacher and need another way to say “good job!” on a student’s paper. I’m hoping this list will help: 100 Ways to Say Great! I’ve included the list below and a shareable/pinnable poster version at the bottom. If you like this one, you may also enjoy my other Ways to Say posts: Admirable! Amazing! Arresting! Astonishing! Astounding! Awesome! Awe-inspiring! Beautiful! Breathtaking! Brilliant! Capital! Captivating! Clever! Commendable! Delightful! Distinguished! Distinctive! Engaging! Enjoyable! Estimable! Excellent! Exceptional! Exemplary! Exquisite! Extraordinary! Fabulous! Fantastic! Fascinating! Finest! First-rate! Flawless! Four-star! Glorious! Grand! Impressive! Incomparable! Incredible! Inestimable! Invaluable! Laudable! Lovely! Magnificent! Marvelous! Masterful! Mind-blowing! Mind-boggling! Miraculous! Monumental! Notable! Noteworthy! Out of sight! Out of this world! Outstanding! Overwhelming! Peerless!
Thirteen Writing Prompts. [Originally published May 4, 2006.] Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument. Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible imp living behind his or her right ear. Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon. A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. Imagine if your favorite character from 19th-century fiction had been born without thumbs. Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.
Creative Writing Courses and Ideas: An Online Resource for Writers Pictello Pictello is designed for all ages and skill levels. Anyone can make a story to share an important event, experience, activity or even videos from their latest holiday. Individuals who have difficulty speaking often use Pictello to share their news, interests and to participate in social conversations.
Stephen King’s Top 20 Rules for Writing | Margaret Langstaff As you know I in the habit of publishing “writing rules” from various well-known writers as I stumble over them on the web. They won’t write your books for you, but they are food for thought. For what it’s worth here are Stephen King’s. Happy writing! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. This list was posted on Open Culture ( on March 16th, 2014. Like this: Like Loading... A lifelong critical reader with literary tastes, a novelist, short story writer, essayist, book critic and so on for many years...A consultant to publishers, providing manuscript critiques, a friend and supporter of others, admittedly a small group but my kind of people, interested in literary things and of writers who aspire to writing not just books (or poems, stories, novels, plays etc.) but literature.
Creative Writing Prompts and Exercises | The Time is Now The most important and underrated factor in a writer’s success is discipline. Talent and luck always help, but having a consistent writing practice is often the difference between aspiring writers and published writers. The advice we hear from agents, editors, and authors alike is always the same: Focus on the writing. The Time Is Now offers a weekly writing prompt (we’ll post a poetry prompt on Tuesdays, a fiction prompt on Wednesdays, and a creative nonfiction prompt on Thursdays) to help you stay committed to your writing practice throughout the year.
12 Useful Websites to Improve Your Writing by Johnny Webber 1. Words-to-Use.com – A different kind of thesaurus. 2. 3. 4. 5. 750words.com – Write three new pages every day. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. College Readiness: Writing to Learn The controversial author Norman Mailer said, "I don't know what I think until I write it down." Joan Didion perhaps said it better in this way, "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear." Donald Murray, a pioneer of the writing process, stated, "...all writers 'are compelled to write to see what their words tell them." There is an amazing power to learn when you read what you have written. When we write to learn, we analyze, we revise, we organize, we rewrite, we evaluate and so on until what is written is what we want to communicate. Learning From What You Write Perhaps the first level of writing to learn has already been discussed in my post on critical reading. Though writing is an active learning endeavor, not passive as in listening, the act of writing involves more of the entire body in the process and thus will increase the likelihood of learning. In the Classroom Suggested resources Kingdon, C.
Creative Writing Prompts Write a scene that includes a character speaking a different language, speaking in a thick accent, or otherwise speaking in a way that is unintelligibe to the other characters. (Note: You don't necessarily need to know the language the character is speaking—be creative with it!) Describe a character's reaction to something without explaining what it is. Write a story or a scene about one character playing a prank on another. Writing Prompt: Write a story that involves confusion over homonyms (words that have the same spelling but different meanings) or homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently). For World Storytelling Day, share the best story you've ever heard or told by word of mouth, or have a fictional character recount their favorite story. You're making your way down a cobbled street when a stocky, red-bearded man beckons you into an alley. Pick an item from each column in the chart to create a simile.
Reflective Essay Prompts for High School Students A reflective essay calls on the writer to express your own views of an experience. Sometimes, reflective writing will ask you to think more deeply about a book, movie, musical work, or piece of art. Other times, the topics will invite you to reflect on a personal encounter or other experience. These four reflective essay prompts for high school students are more personal in nature. For your essay, choose a topic that speaks to you the most. 1. A role model is a person you look up to—someone you respect or admire more than anyone else. 2. By the time you reach high school, you have already experienced some of life’s ups and downs. 3. Have you lived or traveled overseas? 4. No one is immune to failure—scientists, authors, athletes, surgeons, and great leaders can all recount times of falling flat on their faces. If you enjoyed these reflective essay topics for high school, be sure to check back each week for more Writing Prompt Wednesdays! Compare and Contrast Essay Prompts
Veranderen nieuwe media de taal? | Taalcanon Niemand zou het twintig jaar geleden hebben durven voorspellen, maar er wordt tegenwoordig meer geschreven dan ooit tevoren. Iedereen lijkt eraan mee te doen. In bus en trein zit al snel de helft van de mensen op een schermpje te kijken en berichten in te tikken. Veel mensen denken dat dit grootschalig gebruik van moderne media de taal wel moet veranderen – al is niet iedereen het erover eens of dat nu een gunstige ontwikkeling is of juist niet. Betekent het een uitbarsting van taalcreativiteit, of het begin van een totale taalregelloosheid die alleen maar kan eindigen in een totale taalchaos? Twitter: kort en krachtig? Om zulke vragen te kunnen beantwoorden moeten we eerst weten of – en zo ja op welke manier – taal nu precies verandert onder invloed van de moderne media. En ook in een verzameling van twitterteksten van de Nederlandse taalkundige Folgert Karsdorp valt op dat twitteraars niet per se korte woorden gebruiken. Sms en chat: geen klinkers meer nodig Jongerentaal op schrift
7th Graders Publish Their Own Textbook Mac Life wrote an article titled Super 7th Graders Publish Their Own eBook to the iBookstore. It explains the project in more detail. "Each student has to choose an organisms they wanted to study and were required to submit their topic for approval. Afterward, students had to write informative – but entertaining! – articles about their organism." Andrea collected work from 69 students and entered it into iBooks Author. iBooks Author is free but only works on Macs running 10.7 Lion or higher. iBooks Author is a fantastically powerful tool. There are some disadvantages to using iBooks author for crafting your own learning materials. Check out what Andrea and her students say about writing their book. I think the comment by CNEBBY in the Customer Reviews of Creatures, Plants and More sums up the project well: "This is an awesome example of what kids can do when they are properly motivated by a skilled teacher."