"At first I thought, 'This is going to be a really short story.' Then you started teaching us things--and my story started to get longer and longer and longer!"
Here's what we've been teaching/learning:
• how to find seed ideas by thinking of turning points in our lives
• how to listen carefully and encouragingly to each others' ideas
• how writers ask themselves, "What am I really trying to say?"
• how to use timelines as tools for planning and revising our stories
• how to study and create leads
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