wordswimmer

There’s a special feeling that you get when you hold the new book of an author whose work you've loved in the past.  It’s a little like...

How do you teach young writers about point of view? In one of last year's workshop sessions that I led at our local library, I explained...

Writing stories--and how one learns to do it--is so elusive. Can anyone explain the actual process of learning to write... or fully understa...

During the last two sessions of the Young Writers Workshop that I taught at our local library, I introduced a simple exercise to help the ch...

A small crowd of children is gathered in a semi-circle on the floor around me as we begin the second session of the Young Writers Workshop a...

On my first night teaching a young writers' workshop at our local library, I stand in front of a roomful of twenty children and try to d...

Over the next five weeks I'll be teaching a writing workshop at the local library to help young swimmers find their way into the water. ...