Living Life Twice

When introduced to the classroom,  the Writer's Notebook has the potential to exert a significant influence on the written efforts of all writers within that learning environment:  Fostering Creativity  Idea Generation:  The notebook serves as a repository for ideas, observations, and inspirations, allowing writers to capture and develop their thoughts. Used in this way the writer retains ownership over ideas.  The notebook becomes a gathering place for precious and fragile ideas; -Ideas that might need time to growin the writer's mind until such times as they are ready to be expanded upon. Used this way the notebook becomes a treasure chest for potential ideas.  Experimentation: The notebook provides a safe space for writers to try out new techniques, styles, and voices, promoting experimentation and innovation. The unique character of each writer has an opportunity to flourish. A true sense of agency develops.   Developing Writing Habits  R...

  Here are five of the most popular  Living Life Twice  posts for 2024. Thank you for your continuing support and interest in teaching writing and all it entails. Here's a chance to reconnect with writing ideas. Ideas you can easily carry forward into 2025. Just click the blue link... Advice and Inspiration For Young Writers After a lifetime engaged in a writing life as both teach er and writer/poet, I offer the following advice to young and inexperienced writers. Advice about developing good writing habits and thinking about your writing in ways that deliver some essential energy to continue writing.  May these words prove of value to you and you approach writing eagerly to write what matters, striving to build confidence and experience as teachers, students and authors. Emotional Responses To Writing Emotional response is critically important in writing.  It’s part of the total package. Our emotional responses manifest themselves in many ways. Sometimes it's t...