Crick Hollow Day 3
“Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”
Barbara Kingsolver
Writing into the Day
Our word for warm up writing today at camp was “window.” Here’s what I wrote.
“The view from Bula Mae’s porch was Jes’s window to the world of Sweet Hollow. She thought back to those first days sitting on the edge of the porch, dangling her legs off the side thinking how quiet Sweet Hollow was. Now, half way through the summer, longer than she ever imagined she’d be here, Jes had learned that Sweet Hollow was as vibrant as any place she’d been—it just took listening in a different way.”
Writing with Each Other’s Words
Today we all wrote 3 nouns and 3 phrases down on paper and put them into 2 piles. Then we each chose 3 from each pile and used these to inspire our writing.
Revision Strategy: Drawing Out Our Stories
Draw out your story in picture frames as if a comic strip. Then add dialogue or thought bubbles as a way to imagine more in your story. See what main pieces of your plot you choose to represent in pictures. What new details do you discover when you draw your story? Are there symbols or images that emerge?
Poem of the Day
Child on Top of a Greenhouse by Theodore Roethke
The wind billowing out the seat of my britches,
My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty,
The half-grown chrysanthemums staring up like accusers,
Up through the streaked glass, flashing with sunlight,
A few white clouds all rushing eastward,
A line of elms plunging and tossing like horses,
And everyone, everyone pointing up and shouting!
Book Suggestion of the Day:
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Blog Suggestion of the Day:
For book suggestions and reviews visit Esme Raji Codell’s (Sahara Special) blog at http://planetesme.blogspot.com/
Writing Camp of the Day:
Looking for another place to write this summer? Interested in turning your writing into movies with Clay Animation, check out this camp by the Western Mass. Writing Project
http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/programs/final_clay_camp_flier.pdf
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