Begging for Inspiration: Reading About Writing

Go to Scholastic Scribe today to learn about one of my favorite books on writing. If you use your imagination, you might get be able to picture what I was like in 1991. My students think I'm a hippie now just because I like peace signs, happy faces, and I spray this scent in my classroom when it gets too smelly. Sheesh! They shouldn't stereotype based on those things! (I tell my students I'm waaaaay to young to be a hippie, but it only confuses them.)

Below are a few more books on writing I have enjoyed. They aren't necessarily for classroom use, but I've used bit and pieces.

• Everyday Creative Writing: Panning for Gold in the Kitchen Sink
  
• On Writing
• Writing Down the Bones
• Bird by Bird
• Poemcrazy
• The Writer's Book of Matches