Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words

Authors: Fletcher, Ralph
Publisher: HarperCollins
BISAC/Subject: JNF029010, JNF029060, JNF063000
ISBN: 9780062014917, Related ISBNs: 0062014919, 9780062014917, 9780380797011
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 144,
Audience: Children/juvenile
Synopsis:

A practical guide for how to make your writing come alive, by the bestselling author of A Writer’s Notebook and the ALA Notable Book Fig Pudding.

What is “live writing”? It’s the kind of writing that has a current running through it—energy, electricity, juice. This book is a young writer’s toolbox for bringing writing to life. But instead of awls and hammers, this toolbox contains words, imagination, a love of books, a sense of story, and ideas for how to make the writing live and breathe.

Perfect for classrooms, Live Writing is full of practical wisdom for young writers, from bestselling writer Ralph Fletcher. Aspiring writers will devour these tips for how to make their words jump off the page!

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