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Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink | Gail Carson Levine
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Bestselling author of Ella Enchanted and fairy-tale master Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing in this companion to the popular Writing Magic. Have you ever wanted to captivate readers with a great opening, create spectacular and fantastical creatures, make up an entire country, realize a dastardly villain, write an epic love story, or make your characters leap off the page? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Gail Carson Levine can help you achieve your goals. Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine offers a behind-the-scenes take on writing and teaches you how to become a world-class author. Drawing from her popular blog, Gail answers readers' fiction- and poetry-writing questions and dives into how to make a story come alive. If you're interested in writing prose and poetry or just want to be a better and more rounded writer, this book will help you on your creative journey. With her trademark humor and vast writing knowledge, Gail Carson Levine reveals the tricks of her trade, writer to writer. Supports the Common Core State Standards
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Sharpeipup
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My former boss has published a second book as I‘m struggling to read one.
#childrensbook
If you want to check it out, Www.reneebollaauthor.com

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Charityann
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I finished my local library‘s summer reading program and received this cool journal as a completion prize! 📚📖✍🏼😊 #ilovemylibrary #writelife #writersoflitsy #summerreading

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Charityann
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My Scribbler box came today! I can‘t wait to look inside. I know I got the tagged book because I added onto my regular box.😁📚👩🏻‍💻

#writersoflitsy #readerandwriter #scribblerbox

wanderinglynn Let me know what you think. I‘ve considered subscribing to Scribbler too, but wasn‘t sure how good it really is. 5y
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LiterRohde
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“Writers‘ Spell”

"Mutter, mutter, dream and ponder;
Writer writes and fingers flutter.
Starting words of a startling tale,
On the paper, laugh or wail,
Days of joy and weeks of woe,
Mountains high and vales below,
Hero's hope, villain's might,
Evil's plot, virtue bright.
With this spell of flash and thunder,
In a vision, write the wonder."

#PoetryMatters | 13: #Charm

?: Made with Typorama

TheSpineView Love it!💜💜 5y
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LaurenReads
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My first @goscribbler box came in! It's a subscription box just for aspiring writers! I love that it's packed with stuff, but everything has an intended purpose.

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Branwen
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Alright guys, this is it. Y'all have been super inspiring with your #nanowrimo posts, and you've motivated me to really concentrate on my writing next month! I've had an account for years, but never did it before because of loooots of self doubt. That ends now! Let's all be writing buddies and motivate each other!
My user name is Rebecca_Sara
Guys, we got this! 👍🤗💕📚✒

saresmoore 🙌🕺 6y
DaveGreen7777 YAS!!! 😀🎉🎊 6y
Branwen @saresmoore Whoo hoo! Writing buddies! 😀👍 @DaveGreen7777 I'm going to work on Waiting to Live! I hope this will tear through all my self doubt issues when it comes to writing! 6y
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DaveGreen7777 That‘s wonderful, Becky! Your writing was absolutely brilliant in what I‘ve read of yours! 😊 6y
Branwen @DaveGreen7777 Thank you, my dear friend! I can't tell you how much that means to me! 💕 I'll be emailing you any and all updates on my writing progress! 😁 6y
DaveGreen7777 YAY!!! I look forward to reading them! 😃 6y
Branwen @DaveGreen7777 Hooray! You're the best! 🤗 6y
jmofo This is exciting! You can do this & I‘m happy to cheer you on or discuss the process anytime! I‘ll buddy you on the NaNo but I can‘t find you. I‘m Jessie Mofo on NaNo, if you‘d like to connect. (edited) 6y
KateFulfordAuthor Welcome (back?) 6y
Branwen @jmofo Thank you so much for your support! 💕 I just added you as my buddy! At least, I think I did! 😁👍 @KateFulfordAuthor Thank you so much! 🤗 6y
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hufflepuff-ish
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1) Stephen King
2) Jane Austen
3) Phillipa Gregory.
4) Douglas Adam
5) George RR Martin
6) Chetan Bhagat (why did he start writing? - is all I want to ask him)
7) Khushwant Singh
8) J K Rowling

@Syndelle777 this is so much fun! 🙋🙋

BeansPage Glad you enjoyed it. Nice list 👍🏻 7y
revenge4porgy Maya Angelou, Louisa May Alcott, Kinky Friedman, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madeline L‘Engle, Judy Blume, Jane Austen, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Stephen Hawking. 5y
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CocoReads
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Can I call myself a real writer because I brought my laptop to the car stereo place? I‘m so close to being done and the hour and a half wait to get my new stereo installed seemed like a good time to try to finish it up.

saresmoore Woohoo! I‘m so impressed! And of course you are a real writer! 🙌 7y
LauraBeth Exciting - you‘re almost done! 7y
CocoReads Thanks! I‘m so proud of myself—I‘ve never actually finished anything I‘ve started before! 7y
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SandyW Almost finished... Exciting! 🎆 7y
tammysue Wonderful! 💜 7y
mhillis If you write, you‘re a writer!! 🤩 7y
CoverToCoverGirl That‘s so exciting... pick me to read an ARC please. 😎 7y
CocoReads All you Littens are the greatest! 7y
CocoReads @CoverToCoverGirl if it gets that far, your on the list! 7y
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sammisho
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An hospital staff lounge is really not the most conducive place to work on writing...
#nanowrimo

ElizabethAndino Just sent you an email re: LGp JE (edited) 7y
sammisho @ElizabethAndino Thanks!!! I will pass the info along! 7y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Mehso-so

A lot of useful info & it did get me inspired to keep working on my novel-in-progress. But I was disappointed she never mentioned anything related to social justice, especially when she encouraged young writers to use physical character description to show personality & made a very heterosexist romance chapter. It was also quite skewed towards fantasy & realism, so those interested in other genres would do better to find another writing guide.

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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Reading this writing guide aimed at tweens & teens for class. So far it is inspiring me to get back to work on the (adult) novel I've been puttering about on for ages, but I've also found it silent on anything related to social justice which is disappointing. No mention of how tying physical description to character often intersects with racism, fatphobia, ablism. No discussion of the assumed whiteness of characters. Romance chapter was v. hetero

emtobiasz ? Disappointing, if not very surprising. Why is this always the method ppl take to "clean up" books for children? Kids are more observant than you'd think... 7y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @emtobiasz Yeah right? When mentoring young writers wouldn't it be great to teach them from the get-go that making someone fat to indicate they're a villain is a mean thing to do? Of course kids would get that! 7y
batsy It's sad when you think kids already have an instinctive idea that so much of the world is unjust. But they are trained to accept those ideas as "just how society is" through the process of the bad stuff being kept or hidden from them, in a way. 7y
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian @batsy Yeah it doesn't give kids enough credit to hide things from them! And it really others kids who are different from the "norm," telling kids of color, kids with disabilities, etc. that people like them don't exist or are only villains in stories. 7y
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