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Three Free Tools for Your Writer’s Toolbox: CreateSpace, Inkscape, and Teachers Pay Teachers
October 21, Tuesday at 2:00 PST: Three Free Tools for Your Writer’s Toolbox: CreateSpace, Inkscape, and Teachers Pay Teachers *Introduction to the benefits of using each of these tools. Whether your book is for kids or adults, you can publish your own book for free on CreateSpace. You can create marketing products for free on…
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The Rule of Three
Instructor: Nancy I. Sanders, bestselling and award-winning children’s author of nearly 100 books including Yes! You Can Learn How to Write Children’s Books, Get Them Published, and Build a Successful Writing Career. www.nancyisanders.com No matter what genre or market you’re passionate about, we’ll focus on how you can Improve Your Craft by incorporating the Rule…
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Teaching “Main Idea” Through Picture Books by Renee Kirchner
by Renee Kirchner Teaching Tips Contributing Editor Learning how to identify the main idea and supporting details is an important reading skill that children must develop. It helps them to create meaning as they read. Teachers can use a variety of strategies to explain main idea. Basically, the main idea is the main reason the…
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Common Problems in Manuscripts
Since I proof, edit, and critique several manuscripts for students, clients, and coaching club members each week, naturally I come across a variety of elements that make a story or article less than it could be.Here are just a few of the most common problems I see, and tips to avoid or correct them: 1)…
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Fiction Tip: Do You Really Have a Story?
All writers get rejection slips. It’s just part of writing if you submit your work to publishers. But if you’ve been seriously writing fiction for quite a while, yet ALL you’ve received for your work are rejections, then take a closer look at one of your short stories. In fact, do you really have a…
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Writing a Rebus Story
by Renee Kirchner, Teaching Tips Contributing Editor A rebus story is a story that is not just made with words. It is a story that combines words and pictures. The picture can represent an entire word or part of a word. The reader will have to sound out each syllable of a word when…
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Teaching Personification
by Renee Kirchner,Teaching Tips Contributing Editor Personification is a type of figurative language in which a non-living object is given human qualities. The verb in the sentence involves a human action. Here are a few examples: The ocean waves rocked me to sleep. The wind sang a beautiful song. The thunder clapped its hands together…
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How to Write a Memoir – 5 Tips
If you want to know how to write a memoir these 5 tips should help. Tip #1 – Be Fearless Fear is probably the number one obstacle that keeps popping up in front of would-be memoirists. What if so and so gets upset because I’ve written about her? What if I’ve misremembered that conversation about…
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