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  • Published: 1 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9781611800159
  • Imprint: Roost Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00

Leap Write In!

Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch and Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind



Reading Line: Discover your voice through on-the-spot prompts, meandering mini-memoirs, surprising surveys, and endless inspiration for your words to soar

Discover your one-of-a-kind voice through creative writing exercises and prompts that will stretch and surprise your mind, heart, and memory, from the author of Rip the Page!

Invite your jittery mind into quiet slips of timed or untimed writing experiments that are designed to encourage your timid heart to forge forgotten feelings and entice your shy-self to make friends with emerging emotions. With a bounty of prompts to select from, you’ll be inspired to explore all the wacky, confusing, brave, soul-stirring wonderings and wanderings of your emerging life’s inner treasure in a way that’s sure to unleash what you most need to say. In this book you’ll find:

   •  On-the-Spot Drops that offer quick “free-fall” prompts on different themes, such as short-winded poems and seven-line stories. 
   •  Mini Memoirs to unlock personal narrative to share, or not.
   •  Suddenly a Story suggestions to explore feelings and states of being like fear, reluctance, compassion, kindness, anxiety, anger, jealousy, happiness, and more.
   •  Surprise Yourself Surveys for those who think they know everything about themselves.
   •  Untie-Your-Mind Word Lists to jump-start stalled imaginations.
   •  Definition Decoders to introduce new ideas and styles of writing.

Created especially for tweens, teens, and other earthlings, this book provides you with a chance to create imaginative poems, stories, fragments, and real-life on-the-spot sketches. All that’s required is that you take a breath, relax, reset, and leap write in!

  • Published: 1 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9781611800159
  • Imprint: Roost Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Karen Benke

Karen Benke has inspired children in the art of creative writing for sixteen years as a freewrite facilitator, creative writing coach, and poet-teacher in the California Poets in the Schools program, where she specializes in leading creative writing workshops for children seven to fourteen years old. Her writing has appeared in many anthologies and national literary journals. She is the recipient of two teaching grants from Poets & Writers and is a four-time grant recipient from the Marin Arts Council Fund for Artists.

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