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Off to teach at the Secret Worlds Camp
Tomorrow, I’m off to Korea to teach two writing camps. The first one will take place at a school in Seoul and will focus on a broad range of creative activities. The second camp has the theme of...
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Thinking small
Day 1 at the Secret Worlds Camp in Korea is now finished. We’re really thinking small this camp! We’ve started designing and building shrink ray guns. But, first, we started with making miniature...
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Tiny characters for tiny stories
One of the focuses of the Secret Worlds camp that I’m teaching right now is to encourage the students to think about adding variety to their characters. So often, I find that the stories feature three...
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Across the Great Rug Desert, past the Toilet Waterfalls, and on to Mount Clothes
One of the things we’ve been working on at the CWC Secret Worlds Camp is perspective and perception. After all, if you are a miniature person, the world is going to look very different. We took a fun...
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Mini-meals and hidden homes
Here’s some photos of two more activities we did at the CWC Secret Worlds Camp, led by my teaching partner Kallie George. In order to get the kids thinking about food from a miniature person’s...
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Big problems — small solution
This turned out to be one of my favorite activities at the CWC Secret Worlds camp in Korea. Sticking with our theme of miniature characters, I had each student pit a character against a big problem!...
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Tiny transportation
One of the final workshops that we did at the CWC Secret Worlds camp in Korea involved tiny transportation. For inspiration we showed them some of the transportation devices from famous movies and...
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It’s a big world out there . . .
Last week, I taught a creative writing camp for the Creative Writing for Children Society on the theme of “Secret Worlds” with author Kallie George. We’ve both written books that involved secret...
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