Mr McPhail's English Blog: Creative Writing

Creative Writing

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Creative Writing - Generating Ideas

Starting My Story - what to include

Essay Checklist - Creative Writing

Creative Writing
Dennis Jerz and Kathleen Kennedy created this really handy guide to the creation of creative writing.
It is applicable across all levels. Vital reading!

"So we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past."

"It takes two to make an accident."

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”

"We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

"Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard."

"Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people."