HeyJaredUnschool for Writers
Playing and working with words: finding your own way to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young people
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October 1 Variety Post (opens the original)
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It’s been a long month. We’ve travelled thousands of kilometres, many of them stormy Atlantic coast wind and rain. Now we’re heading back west, expecting—hoping—to return before Canadian Thanksgiving.I’ve not been able to post often, so this month has been on me, with a payment-pause for paid subscribers. Thank you for your patience! I will be back to usual soon, I trust.Thoughts of re-writing, be it the mechanical process of re-typing (which ideally is not at all mechanicl!) or questioning elem
Picturebook sub for our workshop space (opens the original)
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A Collection of Posts that Serve as Check-lists (opens the original)
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In my most recent post, I wrote about working without a writing partner, and reviewing what you know about the most basic elements and strands in order to self-evaluate where your story is at. Definitely an unschooling/autodidact piece.So I’m assembling some of our archived posts to that end.And this trusty post—always a must at some point in the novel process, even if the element of “time&
“It’s Based On a True Story” (opens the original)
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Kade Makes a Card #2 (opens the original)
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