Learning to Write
Resources:
- Junior Vocabulary
- Senior Vocabulary
- Why Semi-Colons are evil
- Writing Ridiculous Analogies and normal ones Regular Analogies
- Cool Hints
- Famous Opening Lines in Novels
- Write your own opening lines on a story about a boy who finds out he has the ability to read minds.
- Write your own puns. (Write them in 1 minute contests. Topics: kangaroo, donkey, phys ed teacher, mime, ventriloquist, juggler, judge, doctor. Include one long pun on Ghandi
- Setting the scene to open a story and the THUMP line