Level-Up Your Writing Instruction with Artfulness
When you teach students formulaic writing scaffolds, they produce formulaic writing. There's a better way. With Artfulness, you can harness the power of creative writing to show students how making thoughtful, deliberate choices strengthens their compositions. They produce better writing and you have more fun grading it. It's a win-win!
Looks & Gazes - Free Writing Resource!
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My friend Stacy Juba has an "eye-opening" free resource you might be interested in. It’s called The Looks and Gazes Quickstart Guide and it contains more than 100 ways to describe your characters’ looks and gazes. What's wrong with looks and gazes? Well, the problem is that most writers overuse them. The Energize Your Writing PDF has more than 4,000 emotional prompts in 21 categories such as anger, annoyance and frustration, arrogance, boredom, compassion, confidence, and contemplation. And that’s just A-C! If you'd like to sample the toolkit and start punching up those trite sentences, then downloading The Looks and Gazes Quickstart Guide is a fantastic start. Click here and sign up to receive the guide in your inbox.
