by admin | Jun 1, 2022 | What I've Read
May was a quiet month for reading. I read two audiobooks and a chapter book, as well as making progress on some longer reads. One thing I enjoy about doing the Young Writers Groups the fact that each one is at least an hour’s drive away from home, so I can enjoy...
by admin | May 31, 2022 | Blog, Writers Group
This afternoon at Young Writers Group, we were discussing mentor texts, only that’s not we called them. If you’ve never heard of a mentor text, essentially it’s a book or piece of text that can serve as a good example of a piece of writing. I set the...
by admin | May 21, 2022 | Writers Group
It’s amazing the number of people who tell me not to do murder mysteries as an activity with young writers. The interesting thing I’ve found is that young writers love murder mysteries! The reason they love it could be creating a puzzle to solve, or...
by admin | May 17, 2022 | News, Writers Group
Yesterday, I had the first Young Writers Group at the Maffra library. There were four young writers in attendance and we had a lot of fun. As is common in these groups, talk turned to writing a novel. A few participants talked about their planning and how they have...
by admin | May 12, 2022 | News, Prompts, Writers Group
This afternoon, we had a fantastic time at Young Writers Group at Monash Library. Somehow, we started talking about hair and how it can be used to show aspects of a character in writing. We started talking about assumptions people make about the length of a...
