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A few holiday Unschool notes!

The Power of Three

In anticipation of the poetry-discussion thread

Poetry submission #10 - Who Am I? Dizain-Dominated

A Review of Annie Finch's A POET'S CRAFT

December prompt: holiday writing

December 1, 2022 newsletter

Picturebook Submission #17: Wear Your Own Hair!

Party-games. Poetry. Vivid Prose

Picturebook Submission #16

Poetry submission # 9

Happy Thanksgiving!

To Swear or Not to Swear --

Days 4 and 5 at the Del

Days 2 and 3 at the Del

On Serious Cutting

Poetry Submission # 8 - Nothing Like a Good Book

Picturebook submission #15 -- Bridget and Lambie

Finding and Creating Titles

Scene Workshop Sub #8

Eulogy for the Magazine Rack

Picturebook Sub #14: Rosvita and Her Flying Feet-ah!

Scene Workshop - Submission #6

November 1, 2022 Newsletter

November Prompt Thread

In Your Corner for NaNoWriMo

Poetry Submission #7

Picturebook Sub #13

Humour in Writing for Children

Poetry Workshop Sub #6

A Handful of Poetry Markets...

Scene Workshop submission #5 - To Aiia with Love

Picturebook Sub #12

Poetry Submission #5 - I Write/I Dance

Loop Trail or Back-and-Forth - a way to think of story-structure

Ways to Promote Your Work

Scene Workshop sub #4

Brief Note to all Workshop Group Writers...

Wishing you a Content Thanksgiving!

Poetry submission #4 Jug of Milk

Scene group submission #3

Picturebook group #11 sub

Dialogue Tags

Poetry submission #3

October Prompt - shadow of tree

October 1 Newsletter

Poetry Workshop - Submission #4

Scene group #2 submission

Picturebook Group #10

Poetry Workshop submission #2

Off to the Market

Scene Workshop - submission #1

Close Read: The Sweetness of Water

"Scene" workshop

Voice 2 -- further thoughts

Poetry group - sub #1 prose-poetry

Updates on the new Workshops

Picturebook group Submission #9

Workshop Groups! the Picturebook group starting up again for September, and NEW POETRY GROUP

Voice

You finished. You worked on it. The hours have passed...

Tonight: 3 Day Novel kick-off!

September Prompt Thread: VOICE

September 1 Newsletter

The Summer Doldrums

Markets for Monday

The 3 Day Novel - coming up... Labour Day weekend

Josip Novakovich's "Fiction Writer's Workshop" - if you have time and money for just ONE writing book, this is it

POV: Point of View - a big piece of story

Salman Rushdie

Winston -- Picturebook group Submission #8

Close Read - Anne Tyler's latest, French Braid

Dinosaur Bath -- picturebook/board book submission #7

Writing--and Publishing--a Story for Chicken Soup For the Soul

August Prompt: POV and tense

August 1, 2022 Newsletter

A Few Writing Contests

When is a Thing Done?

Walkabout - picturebook submisson #6

Negative Capability

The Fish Who Flew -- picturebook sub #5

A SHORT Summation of the 'Week of Writing'

Friday--Day 5 of a Week to Write

Thursday--Day 4 of a Week to Write

Wednesday--Day 3 of a Week to Write

Tuesday--Day 2 of a Week to Write

If I Was a Tree -- picturebook sub #4

A Week to WRITE -- Monday, Day 1

A whole world of people... PROMPT for July

July 1 newsletter

Without Words

A boardbook! Sub #3 for picturebook group

Ways to Approach Draft Two of The Novel

Dooley Does! -- picturebook sub#2 for PB group

Do You Need an Author's Site?

Barry's Berries - a picturebook submission for the PB Group

Attention: All Picturebook Writers!

Writing Cold Bloodedly

Something or Other & their good friend It

Prompt thread for June

June 1 newsletter

Creating presentations for young people--in classrooms, libraries, and more

How to put together a reading and/or presentation of your work

Collaboration and gratitude: pieces of the writing life

Novel-writing: Know When to Walk Away

When to Begin the Next Project

Puppy Love 2

Character(istic) Flip-sides

The "Colour-Code" approach to feedback

Puppy Love 1 - flash fiction

May Prompt posting area

May 1, 2022 Newsletter

Adults going overboard...

In Fear of Abstraction

CORRECT instructions for finding our workshop space - AND how to get notifications

Questions to consider when offering feedback

When to Put on a Spell: Numbers by Letters

Crowd Management

Short fiction sub

Emerging-writer and Beyond-emerging Paths...

Prologue to a novel: The Tribulation Children

Accessing the Workshop Space

How to workshop successfully

April Prompt - using a couple of points from Richard Hugo's Triggering Town

April 1, 2022 Newsletter

What is Experimental Fiction?

A Must-Read: rare interview with Anne Tyler

The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing

Workshop interest and groupings

Questions for offering useful feedback

Where the Unschool is going; thoughts on mini-courses, workshopping and feedback; an informal survey to offer your thoughts

Repetition / Returning / Revisiting

An Alternative to that Other Old Pyramid

March Prompt

March 2022 Newsletter

A Good Story -- what makes it?

A couple of homes for fiction submissions...

Happy Family Day! What to do with the beloveds, though, when writing...

Using your cover letter to "point in the direction"

Happy Valentine's Day! to the Writer

Close Read: Robert Hillman's The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted

Celebrating Our Favourite Reads Over the Past Year

INDEX 2022

February prompt - image as inspiration

February 2022 Newsletter

Gossip... and the Writer

A Checklist For Novel Beginnings - Foundational series, part 6

A few thoughts on writing competitions

Just One Thing... Coincidence!

World-building - Contemporary Realism - part 3

World-building-Historical fiction - part 2

Short fiction contest

CBC Nonfiction contest

World-building - Fantasy - part 1

January prompt: What are your "fences"?

January 2022 Newsletter