Synopsis
Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all the wacky, confusing, brave, soul-stirring wonderings and wanderings of your emerging life’s inner treasure in a way that’s sure to unleash what you most need to say. In this book you’ll find:
• On-the-Spot Drops that offer quick “free-fall” prompts on different themes, such as short-winded poems and seven-line stories.
• Mini Memoirs to unlock personal narrative to share, or not.
• Suddenly a Story suggestions to explore feelings and states of being like fear, reluctance, compassion, kindness, anxiety, anger, jealousy, happiness, and more.
• Surprise Yourself Surveys for those who think they know everything about themselves.
• Untie-Your-Mind Word Lists to jump-start stalled imaginations.
• Definition Decoders to introduce new ideas and styles of writing.
Created especially for tweens, teens, and other earthlings, this book provides you with a chance to create imaginative poems, stories, fragments, and real-life on-the-spot sketches. All that’s required is that you take a breath, relax, reset, and leap write in!
About the Author
Karen (Karena) Benke is the founder of The Writer’s Nest, a creative literacy mentorship program for children and teenagers. She writes and publishes The Museletter, with a readership of more than two thousand internationally, and is a former Poet in the Schools. She has presented her creative writing adventures program to thousands of children in hundreds of public and private schools, bookstores, libraries, and conferences, and read for the Library of Congress’s Lunchtime Poetry Series. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and national literary journals (Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Rattle, Hawaii Pacific Review, Poetry East), and her books have been featured in FamilyFun magazine, San Francisco Book Review, Kids’ Book Review, the Toronto Star, Guernica Magazine, and more. The recipient of two teaching grants from Poets & Writers and writing residencies from Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Hedgebrook, Numeroventi Design Center (Italy), and The Moth (Ireland), she is co-author with Matilde Pettini of Lunch at Lola’s (Rizzoli, 2027) about the rising star’s trattoria, Dalla Lola, that was featured on National Geographic’s Tucci in Italy. She divides her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Florence, Italy, where she is always at work on a creative project. Visit her virtually at www.karenbenke.com.
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