- April's January 29, 2010 WWW post on One-Minute Journals
- April's February 24, 2012 WWW post on Writing a Lingo Journals
- Esther's October 21, 2011 WWW post on Writing a THANKU
- Carmela's November 21, 2012 post on Writing a Tetractys
- JoAnn's April 16, 2010 WWW post on List Poems
- April's May 21, 2010 WWW post with an End of School Year Parallel Poem
Resources you'll find here, on our TeachingAuthors site:
- We invite classroom teachers to use our writing exercises, called Writing Workouts, with their students. To learn more about what they are and how to find them on our blog, see our Writing Workouts page.
- For the post "What Should I Write About?" click here.
- To read about one-minute journals, click here.
- To read about "Observing and Reporting" vs. "Journaling," click here.
- For the “Mind Walk” exercise, read this post.
- To find all the posts that mention Six-Word Memoirs, click here.
- For the exercise on "Writing a Question Poem," see this post.
- For links to places where students can get their writing published, see this page.
- For links to general children's/YA lit blogs and author/illustrators blogs, see this page.
- Children's Book Week Story-Starters
- Teachers & Writers Magazine on teaching creative writing
- OnePagePerDay: "It's a very simple web typewriter that presents you with a single blank page each day. You are free from the tyranny of the infinite page."
- NaNoWriMo: official website for National Novel Writing Month.
- WOW! Women on Writing
- Now Write! series edited by Sherry Ellis for Tarcher/Penguin. For example, see Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
- The Pocket Muse, by Monica Wood, Writer’s Digest Books
- The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, Tarcher; See also The Artist's Way Online
- Bird by Bird, by Anne LaMott, Anchor
- Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself, by Eileen and Jerry Spinelli, Knopf
- A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, by Ralph Fletcher, HarperCollins