Try It: Terrific Titles

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Assign Family Members Terrific Titles!

Today’s Try It prompt is from Week Two of our Amari and the Great Game Arrow.

Think about your parents’ or siblings’ special talents. Is your brother a fabulous dog walker? Does your dad make magic in the kitchen?

Work with your kids to assign job titles to each person in your family. It’s okay if they’re zany!

Here are a few examples to get you thinking: 

  • Mom, Chief Director of Fun Times
  • Lydia, Director of Theatre Productions
  • Baby Toby, President of Naps and Noises

Let us know how it goes (#bravewriterlifestyle)! 

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You Are Learning Too

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You don’t owe anyone a perfect performance as a parent, educator, or person.

Exhale. Long, slow, complete.

The stress you feel is not always yours. It’s pressure from outside introjected inside.

You have the same right as anyone else to:

  • Take a risk
  • Try a thing
  • Make a mistake
  • Change your mind
  • Do something else
  • Disappoint someone
  • Forget to follow through
  • Lose your way
  • Overthink
  • Worry
  • Have dreams and wishes
  • Revise a belief
  • Speak up
  • Say no
  • Say I don’t know

You’re learning how to be an educator, parent, and adult all at once. Of course you don’t know what you’re doing yet.

You’ll make mistakes, you’ll stumble on genius, you’ll be bored, you’ll be amazed.

All of it counts.

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Friday Freewrite: Three-Letter Palindromes

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Palindromes are words that read the same backwards and forwards. See how many of these three-letter palindromes you can use in your freewrite:

  • aha
  • bub
  • dad
  • dud
  • eve
  • eye
  • gig
  • mom
  • pop
  • pup
  • tot
  • tut
  • wow

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[Podcast #229] Brave Writer Student to Professional Author: Millie Florence

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At age 20, Brave Writer alum Millie Florence has already published three books! She joins the podcast today to talk about:

  • her writing process,
  • her publishing experience,
  • and what she learned in her Brave Writer classes.
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Millie Florence

Plus, we geek out about Minecraft Story Mode and our favorite middle grade novels!

Show Notes

Millie’s Writing Process

Millie considers herself to be more of a “plotter” than a “pantser” these days. That means she likes to sit down and plot out her story before diving into writing (versus writing by the seat of her pants). She actually enjoys the revision process–which makes sense when you realize that just means she gets to spend more time with the incredible characters she has created.

Millie’s Publishing Experience

When Millie wrote her first book at age 13, she had two goals regarding the publishing process:

  1. She wanted it to go quickly because she wanted to still be a child when the book got published,
  2. And she wanted to learn everything she could about the publishing process.

So Millie decided to self-publish with her parents and family friends acting as the beta readers. But Millie has gone the publisher route as well, and is now starting her publisher’s marketing tour for her book “Beyond Mulberry Glen.”

Millie is an absolute delight. It’s fun to hear about her Brave Writer memories, adventures in Minecraft Story Mode, and her take on the world of books.

We’re very proud to count her among our alumni.

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Love and Trying – Part Two

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There’s no tactic that ensures a child will match a parent’s fantasy. There’s only love and trying, over and over—until the child knows they are loved, and the parent knows the child is a unique, wholly separate person.

If you missed Part One, here it is.

The Trying: every tip, trick, and attempt to grow your child into a kind, mature, responsible adult.

The Love: your pleasure and pride in your children.

Children Grow Away from You

Children grow away in fury, in peace, in their own way, at their own pace.

We send them into their futures with our favorite souvenirs:

  • confidence,
  • an education,
  • kindness,
  • diligence,
  • a sense of humor,
  • our beliefs,
  • our hopes and dreams.

They sort through the gifts and purge the ones they don’t want. They keep the ones they value. They grab some you didn’t want for them.

They become their own people. You get to be their witnesses. You will try again and love them again in this new way.

And that’s how it is for everyone.

There’s only love and trying.

Those two are enough to get you (and your kids) all the way there.

This post is originally from Instagram and @juliebravewriter is my account
so come follow along for more conversations like this one!

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