This article focuses on ideas for lessons to teach creative writing such as Brain-Scrambler, Five-Sentence Paragraph, Obfuscatory Sentences, and Two-Sentence Response.

This is the 16th article in a series that gives advice to the new novel writer. This is a particularly interesting and helpful article on how to deal with periods in writing when your enthusiasm wanes.

This journal article examines how the use of technology has helped to promote critical thinking and creativity. The article includes examples specifically focused on Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451."

This brief page from the Washington Calligrapher's Guild gives several illustrations and explanations of calligraphy, lettering, and design. Teachers could use this as a short reference with examples.

This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.

How much of your novel have you written? Do you keep starting it and never finishing it? Learn the answers to these questions in this novel-writing advice piece.

This is the eighth article in a series that focuses on helping the new novel author. This article looks at how the author can avoid creating stumbling blocks that disrupt the flow of the novel.

This is the fifteenth article in a series designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on the genre of historical fiction and the role of the author. Is the author a researcher or a story-teller?

A great resource outlining four major ways to make settings appear more real and genuine in fiction. Deals with themes such as motion, experience, mood, and the senses. W.11-12.3d Sensory/precise lang narratives

An interesting article concerning the importance of setting to any piece of fiction. Gives good information about how setting affects characters and "world-building."

This is the seventh installment of a series giving advice to the author who is new to writing novels. This article focuses on how to take your characters and use them and their conflicts to develop the plot of your story. W.9-10.3b...

Use the ideas on this page to help your students create mini-mysteries.

This site is a personal site from Caro Clarke. The third installment in this series looks at the four major mistakes made by beginning authors. The main idea of this article is that the author needs to be able to combine dialogue with...

AnthologiesOnline.com provides this article Understanding Theme and Premise by Susan J. Letham, which provides tips on how to develop ideas for writing.