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In Advanced Creative Writing, you should consider your creative
soul to be an enchanted forest... a place to be explored, to lose yourself, to find yourself... to break the silence... If
a tree fell in a forest and no one was around to hear it, did it really make a sound?
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Advanced Creative Writing is a senior elective offered every spring.
The class, which fills quickly, requires a writing sample and pre-approval from the teacher, Melanie Beard. Advanced Creative
Writing covers magazine writing, e-zines, blogs and columns. The class produces an online and print journal each May.
We will use this class website as a communication device to share materials, an assignment organizer and a tool for both parents
and students.
Daily Free Writes
If you need ideas to free write around, see the link "Got writer's
block?" I update that list each week.
You will free write for 15-20 minutes five times a week. On Tuesdays
and Thursdays we will start class with a short free write time. Then, as a homework assignment you are to free write three
other days that week. So, you will have five entries in your Free Write Notebook each week. I will check them every other
week in class just to be sure you are free writing. I will not read your notebook unless you indicate you would like to share
it with me.
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Submit your writing to Like Minds!
Like Minds comes out each May. We produce an online and print
version. Submission deadline is March 31.
I will distribute more info in class about submitting to the magazine
or working with other aspects of its development.
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Writer's Digest will be an ongoing part of your reading assignment
in Creative Writing 102. I have numerous issues of it in class which you can access.
WRITER'S DIGEST
IN THE NEWS: In this space each week I will post links to news articles
of interest. I will add links to feature articles which are examples of strong writing and I will link you to articles which
we will discuss in class.
WEEKLY ASSIGNMENTS: Each Sunday, I'll post weekly assignments here of
what we will be working on Monday through Friday. I will also post a Peek Ahead, which will provide a brief overview of next
week's activities.
Click here to access the class BLOG.
Click here to access the PARADISE WEBQUEST.
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I have an open door policy. Please feel free to come by to see me, e-mail
or phone me.
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