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A Brave Writer's Life in Brief

Thoughts from my home to yours

FREE Webinar: How to be Your Child’s Writing Coach and Ally!

The Writer's Jungle Online Free Webinar

I’ve been listening.

Everyday I get emails and messages on social media that express the same thing: teaching your kids writing is hard on your heart.

I hear that many of you don’t know where to start. Or worse, that your relationship with your children suffers when you try to teach writing.

  • Should you focus on content or spelling?
  • How important is a topic sentence?
  • What about grammar?
  • Why does my child cry when we try to revise the writing to make it better?

I get it! I’ve lived it too.

Writing rescue is ahead! I’d like to introduce you to how we teach you to be an effective writing coach and ally to your children.

FREE Webinar: Be Your Child’s Writing Coach and Ally

In the recorded webinar I walk you through our award-winning online class called The Writer’s Jungle Online to demonstrate to you a new way to bring writing to life in your family.

I also share ideas you can apply right away and help you understand which options in Brave Writer will suit your family best.

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Friday Freewrite: Behind the Door

Friday Freewrite

What’s behind the door? Tell a story based on it.

New to freewriting? Check out our online guide.

Tags: Writing prompts
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Online Writing Classes for Teens

Brave Writer Online Writing Classes for Teens

Writing takes on a whole new flavor when our kids reach the teen years. While we’re looking for them to adopt formats and academic language, they still crave risk and adventure in their homeschool! You can’t get an interesting 5-paragraph essay out your kid, but she’ll knock out a fanfiction story in a heartbeat. Or your once reluctant 8 year old writer is only MORE reluctant at 15. This is the common push-pull of writing at this age.

We know this stage can be full of growing pains—but we’ve cracked the code on working with teens!

Instead of sending your young adults off with simply a stack of formats, Brave Writer takes the opposite approach: full engagement with their sometime-brazen opinions, their fun personalities, and the topics that make them passionate and enthralled.

Teens are full of life and are experimenting with developing their own thoughts and opinions about the world. Our writing coaches pull up a kitchen chair and dig in! You’d be surprised how much that reluctant teen will write when an interested adult says “tell me more!”

Brave Writer’s online classes offer the whole spectrum of interest-led to formal writing. All these classes prepare your teen with the writing skills they’ll need in college.

We partner with them in learning how to:

  • Harness their curiosity to ask relevant questions and dive into research
  • Analyze texts to appreciate multiple points of view
  • Take effective notes, gather information
  • Navigate citation rules
  • Gain confidence in writing
  • Honor formats without sacrificing writing voice
  • Develop appreciation for different genres like poetry or essays

This is one of our favorite ages to work with, because everyday is different! Your teen is sure to find something that will resonate with this array of classes:

Classes for high schoolers (13-18):

Advanced Composition
Book Club Boomerang
Brave Writer 201: Kind, Dynamic Revision
College Admissions Essay
Essay Prep: Dynamic Thinking
Essay Prep: Reading the Essay
Essay Prep: Research & Citation
Expository Essay: Exploratory & Persuasive
Expository Essay: Rhetorical Critique & Analysis
Fan Fiction
Journaling Jumpstart
Literary Analysis (Features a different work of literature each time.)
MLA Research Essay
Movie Discussion Club
Passion for Fiction
Penning the Past
Photography and Writing
Powerful Fiction Techniques
Scriptwriting
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The Scoop: The Art of Journalism
Writing the Short Story

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Pouch Book Club: April 2019

Pouch Book Club: Walk Two Moons

We’re sneaky.

All the discussion in our online book clubs for kids is put “into” writing but it will be invisible to them. Students will feel like they are just “talking” when in fact they are writing! This rich experience of putting thoughts and insight into writing will create the foundation for applying the insights to academic formats later.

Plus a FREE digital copy of our language arts guide based on the book selection for the month is provided.


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April’s selection for the Pouch Book Club (ages 11-14) is Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech.

Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, proud of her country roots and the “Indian-ness in her blood,” travels from Ohio to Idaho with her eccentric grandparents. Along the way, she tells them of the story of Phoebe Winterbottom, who received mysterious messages, who met a “potential lunatic,” and whose mother disappeared. As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe’s outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold—the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother.—Amazon

Purchase the novel.

Due to popular demand, Brave Writer now offers a transition book club between the Arrow and Boomerang. The Pouch club is for middle schoolers who want to discuss novels with their peers, who are ready to learn the art of thinking and writing simultaneously all while excited about a great story!

REGISTER HERE

Caveat: Please remember that you’re the parent. If you have doubts about the content of a particular book, please check the reviews of the novel or read it for yourself first. Pouch and Boomerang books in particular may include sexuality, graphic language, and mature themes.


Also starting in April are our Arrow and Boomerang Book Clubs.

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My Lifelong Love Affair with Libraries

My Lifelong Love Affair with Libraries

I loved writing this piece for Read It Forward. Enjoy!

My Lifelong Love Affair with Libraries

My first car accident occurred in the parking lot of a library. I had barely earned my driver’s license a few hours earlier. I hopped in my Mazda GLC that evening for a joyride—straight to the public library. So excited to visit the stacks inside, I hurriedly parked, misjudging the space and clipped the fender of the neighboring car. I got a tongue lashing from the owner, naturally—though the damage was insignificant.

But what stays with me more than that humiliation on what should have been a day of driving triumph is that my first choice destination when exercising my new-born 16 year old freedom, was to drive to a library. Libraries were a haven and a place of intellectual adventure in my childhood.

I remember the delicious sense of “shopping” that libraries provided. My mother took us weekly to pick books—and we were allowed to check out as many as we liked! I would examine the spines for provocative words like: “Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack” and colorful book covers like Garth Williams’ illustrations for the Little House books.

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