A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer Within You

Fletcher, Ralph

ISBN 10: 061365014X ISBN 13: 9780613650144

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2003

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Discusses the various kinds of things to keep in a writer's notebook: seed ideas, mind pictures, lists, memories, samples of other writers' work--and why.

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Review:

Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer's notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. Fletcher, author of the ALA Notable children's book Fig Pudding, fleshes the book out with numerous examples from his own notebooks and from those of other writers, child and adult.

From the Back Cover:

Writers are like other people, except for at least one important difference. Other people have daily thoughts and feelings, notice this sky or that smell, but they don't do much about it.

Not writers. Writers react. And writers need a place to record those reactions. That's what a writer's notebook is for. It gives you a place to write down what makes you angry or sad or amazed, to write down what you noticed and don't want to forget . . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtleback Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 061365014X
• ISBN 13: 9780613650144
• Binding: School & Library Binding
• Number of pages: 144