1. Word Play: Writing Poetry For Children . THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT SORRY! Date September 18 - 21, 2003. Begins Thursday at 600 p.m. with dinner; ends on Sunday with lunch. Designed For Writers interested in creating childrens poetry. play with words, explore feelings, experiment with free verse, tackle rhyme, observe nature. There will be quiet time, writing......Workshop http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/pages/current/FWsched_wordplay_03.html

Workshop Description THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT - SORRY! Date: September 18 - 21, 2003. Begins Thursday at 6:00 p.m. with dinner; ends on Sunday with lunch. Designed For: Maximum Capacity: 14 participants Here is a workshop for those seeking to connect with their inner child as well as with young readers everywhere through the joyful medium of poetry. In this workshop we will play with words, explore feelings, experiment with free verse, tackle rhyme, observe nature. There will be quiet time, writing time, and sharing time. There will be opportunities to ask questions, to express frustrations, and to just sit back and listen. Workshop Faculty Eileen Spinelli Eileen Spinelli Eileen has published many books for children, including Lizzie Logan Wears Purple Sunglasses When Mama Comes Home Tonight Kittycat Lullaby

2. Word Play: Writing Poetry For Children Designed For Writers interested in developing stronger poetry skills by discussing, writing, revising, and working on the craft of poetry. http://www.highlightsfoundation.org/pages/current/FWsched_wordPlay_04.html

Workshop Description Date: October 14 - 17, 2004. Begins Thursday at 6:00 p.m. with dinner; ends on Sunday with lunch. Designed For: Writers interested in developing stronger poetry skills by discussing, writing, revising, and working on the craft of poetry. Maximum Capacity: 14 participants If your dream is to attend a retreat immersed in poetry, here's your chance! This workshop focuses on the essential elements of poetry and the importance of language. We will use all of the senses to explore this unique form of writing: observation, optional nature walks, journaling, quiet writing, shared writing, and group discussions. We will also focus on free verse and rhyme, experiment with creative writing exercises, examine the work of well-known poets, and participate in one-on-one critiques. Workshop Faculty Rebecca Kai Dotlich Rebecca Kai Dotlich Accomplished children's poet, frequent speaker at IRA and NCTE national and local conferences, and former writer-in-residence in the Dekalb County School District in Northern Indiana. Rebecca Kai Dotlich is an award-winning poet who has published numerous children's poetry books, including

3. Garbl's Writing Resources Online Annotated directory of web sites that focus on English grammar, style, usage, plain language, words, reference sources, online writing experts, word play and books on writing. http://garbl.home.comcast.net/writing/

Gary B. Larson resources@garbl.com Writing Worth Reading The Daily Mislead Archives: A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion American Prospect AlterNet Common Dreams Mother Jones ... WorkingForChange The Ultimate Creativity Tool Home ] [ Writing Resources ] [ Style Manual Concise Writing Guide Writing Forum Writing Bookshelf I can't endorse all the standards, guidelines and links presented on all these Web sites. But I'm sure you will find many sites that are useful, interesting and even fun. One of the "101 Best Web Sites for Writers" in 2001 and 2000. Please contact me to recommend a Web site Find out what you can do to advocate peace, promote justice, and end the failed, deceitful presidency of George W. Bush. Grammar Guides everything you want to know about correctly using the parts of speech and sentence structureplus a section on punctuation Fat-Free Writing This annotated directory features Web sites that give advice on cutting the fat from your writingso your readers can easily chew, digest and be nourished by your top-choice words. Style and Usage Web sites and online Style Manuals and Guides with tips to improve your writing, reduce writing errors, increase consistency and figure out the mysteries of abbreviations and capitalization. Includes a section on

4. Brain Candy - Insults Riddles Jokes Humor Wordplay Mind Games AND we've managed to keep our collections of word play and brain entaglement clean enough to be suitable for family a very unusual collection of longer, humorous pieces of writing http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy

Brain Candy corsinet sites Brain Candy Chicago Design Web Garden ... Great Links our sponsors i-pets.com funny-pets.com pet factory suite.net recommended: The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them Duh! The Stupid History Of The Human Race 1,000 Places to See Before You Die The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America link us Brain Candy? What this is ... Insults Riddles Jokes Humor Wordplay Mind Games Brain Candy has been on the web since 1990! We started as an unusual collection of ways to have fun with words. Because we love language and words, we've been collecting bits and pieces of quotes and quips and songs and poetry for years and years. Our collections have grown through the years so that we now can claim to have the best dying words of famous people, the best celebrity

5. Poetry Writing With Jack Prelutsky word play Pick a word, any word, and think of all with onesyllable words, and then with words of two Then write down everything you notice about that object. http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/jack_brainstorming.htm

Scholastic Home About Us Site Map Search ... Customer Service Step 2: Brainstorming Previous Next Word Warm-Ups Just as you would stretch before you go running, you need to warm up before you start writing poetry. Here are some of my favorite exercises to help you stretch your mind: Word Play Pick a word, any word, and think of all the words that rhyme with that word. Try first with one-syllable words, and then with words of two or more syllables. Object Observations Synonym Silliness Think of an adjective, such as happy, soft, tall, or sleepy. Then write down all the words you can think of that have the same meaning as that adjective. This list will help a lot when you're trying to describe things. Here are a few tips for you to follow that have always helped me with my writing. I recommend that you try them! Write as often as you can.

6. Garbl's Word Play Links An annotated list of Web sites that focus on word play and having fun with the English language. http://home.comcast.net/~garbl/writing/wordplay.htm

Gary B. Larson resources@garbl.com The Ultimate Creativity Tool Home Up Style Manual Concise Writing Guide ... Writing Bookshelf Welcome to Here are fun word sites for your amusement and, perhaps, enlightenment. Find out what you can do to advocate peace, promote justice, and expose the lies of George W. Bush. Ann Owed to the Spelling Checker This entire poem went through a spelling checker without a single mistake being caught. Antagonyms Words with multiple meanings that contradict each other. Word plays, catchy phrases and other foolishness. DubyaSpeak.com English is tough stuff "Read aloud, with a friend! After all, laughter is the true universal language!" The Enigma Device A new word game every day in which you swap letter pairs in scrambled well-known or humorous quotations until the originals are restored. fun-with-words A site dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities and oddities of the English language, with sections on pangrams, anagrams, tongue twisters spoonerisms and more. The Gobbledygook Generator This Plain English Campaign tool will provide you with meaningless, empty phrases that make you look "in the know."

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8. WORD PLAY word play. Understanding And writing Lyrics Part 1. Published in SOS December 2000 Printer friendly version Printer friendly version. Technique Miscellaneous. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec00/articles/lyric.asp

WORD PLAY : December 2000 Sound On Sound Current Issue News Subscribers Shop Readers Ads People Technique Reviews Music Business Links Competition SoundBank Sound Advice Current Print Magazine: click for Contents Recent issues: May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 ... GLOSSARY: Tech Terms explained WORD PLAY Understanding And Writing Lyrics: Part 1 Published in SOS December 2000 Printer friendly version Technique : Miscellaneous Writing the words to songs is often thought of as a process of pure intuition, but there's a lot more to it than that. In the first part of a new series, Sam Inglis suggests an alternative way of going about it. Everyone has their own experiences, beliefs and emotions, and lyric writing often is In this series, I'll be trying to explore some of the things you can do with the words to pop songs. There'll never be complete agreement about which lyrics are good or bad, and everyone probably has different opinions on the matter, so I'll be concentrating on ways in which you can find your own voice by learning from the lyrics that you like, whichever they are. I hope that the ideas I'll be setting out, many of which are derived from poetry theory, will help us to understand the different ways in which lyrics can function, in order that we can analyse the ones we like and discover what makes them work for us. My aim is that this will also demonstrate the often under-explored range of lyrical possibilities that is open to us, and introduce some new ideas for those who feel they are stuck in a rut.

9. PLAY WRITING is develop introductory skills in play writing. Class exercises emphasize scripting format, writing dialog, developing Invert the word. play with its sounds. http://www2.scc-fl.com/rbell/Honors Script/HONORS _play_writing_syllabus.htm

IDH 2930 HONORS IDH 2930 SELECTED STUDIES PLAY WRITING INSTRUCTOR: BOBBIE BELL OFFICE: G - 125 PHONE: (407) 328-4722 Extension: 3425 E-MAIL: BellR@scc-fl.edu COLLEGE EMERGENCY NUMBER: (407) 328-2290 BACK PLAY WRITING COURSE DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this course is develop introductory skills in play writing. Class exercises emphasize scripting format, writing dialog, developing dramatic action, becoming familiar with basic dramatic terminology, and preparing one-act plays for submission for production. This selected studies course will be taught as an independent study. COURSE OBJECTIVES : Students successfully completing this course should be able to demonstrate an understanding of basic dramatic techniques and a growth in play writing skills. Students should be able to: 1) read, describe, analyze, criticize, and evaluate play scripts, 2) write short dialogue beats, 3) write minor objective or crisis scenes, 3) write a one act play in standard play script format, 4) participate and respond to script consultations. In addition students should be able to develop good creative writing habits using a daily journal. COURSE OUTLINE 1. Lecture/discussion of theatrical conventions

10. WORD PLAY word play. Understanding And writing Lyrics Part 5 Simile And Metaphor. Published in SOS April 2001 Printer friendly version Printer friendly version. http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr01/articles/lyric.asp

WORD PLAY : April 2001 Sound On Sound Current Issue News Subscribers Shop Readers Ads People Technique Reviews Music Business Links Competition SoundBank Sound Advice Current Print Magazine: click for Contents Recent issues: May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 ... GLOSSARY: Tech Terms explained WORD PLAY Understanding And Writing Lyrics: Part 5: Simile And Metaphor Published in SOS April 2001 Printer friendly version Technique : Miscellaneous Sam Inglis demonstrates how you might further enrich your lyric writing with the use of comparisons. Last month, I introduced the idea that there are two ways in which words can have meaning: through their literal meaning or dictionary definition (their denotation), and through the associations they bring to mind (their connotations). Connotations, unlike denotations, are subjective, in that one word or phrase may connote different sets of ideas to different people. Used carefully, however, they allow you to imply or suggest a greatdeal through far fewer words than would otherwise be needed, a feature that makes connotation crucial in both poetry and pop songwriting, where verses are necessarily short. As I explained last month, connotation makes it possible to employ words and phrases in ways where their literal meaning is secondary, because they are used primarily for their associations. Expressions used in this way are known as figures of speech. The figure of speech I considered in the last instalment was metonymy, the use of a detail or example to refer to the whole of a thing, as in 'the big smoke' for 'London' or 'a nice motor' for 'car'.

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12. Live Writing By Heart: Journal Writing And Creative Word-Play Live writing By Heart Journal writing and Creative wordplay more, the practice of journal-keeping will expand your writing pathways and allow creative word play without judgment http://greyrock.colostate.edu/2002/merriman_workshop.cfm

Joannah L. Merriman, M.A., Workshop Leader Live Writing By Heart: Journal Writing and Creative Word-Play Whether you're a writer or "just" someone who loves to write and wants to do more, the practice of journal-keeping will expand your writing pathways and allow creative word play without judgment. A journal can become the garden in which you plant thoughts, ideas, and memories, a place where your future polished writing pieces can take root and grow. In this workshop we will explore some myths about journal writing, offer suggestions for a safe and satisfying writing practice, as well as hints and specific exercisesquick and simpleto get you started or to expand your journal-keeping experience. Join us! Explore the possibilities which come from playing in your own word garden. Email: jetlost@lamar.acns.colostate.edu Enrollment Limit: No Limit About this Site This Year's Greyrock Institute Archives

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15. Word Play 11 Ways to Improve Your writing ·. word play Copyright © 19972004, The Roberts Group. writing editing. word play. by Sherry Roberts http://www.editorialservice.com/wordplay.html

@import "trg.css"; The Roberts Group Take me home Book Production Book Production Quote Book Interior Designs Covers ... Self-Publisher's Resource Web Services Web Editing and Design Web Hosting Services Web Hosting Quote Form Web Design Clients Newsletters Newsletter Production 11 Ways to Improve Your Writing Word Play Books about Writing Design Design services for Reports, Brochures, and Manuals About Us Word Play by Sherry Roberts Let Boilerplate Simplify Your Life Make writing those proposals more bearable. Some writing in business is repetitive by necessity. Proposals, for example, often include waivers or standard paragraphs that must be repeated proposal after proposal. Create a file for boilerplate in your computer and place in it copies of all the boilerplate paragraphs you use in proposals, press releases, reports, memos, and letters. When you need to use one, simply copy the appropriate section and paste into your current document. It Ain't Over Till It's Over The next time you send a press release to a newspaper or magazine indicate when the press release ends by typing an end mark after the last paragraph. Give the end mark its own line and center it. Editors will appreciate the gesture.

16. Poynter Online - Writing Tool #5: Observe Word Territory a Stop Sign; 5/11/2004 43511 PM writing Tool 5 Observe word Territory; 5/18/2004 31522 PM writing Tool 6 play with words. http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=63482

17. Garbl's Concise Writing Guide Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. . W. Somerset Maugham The secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims stick http://garbl.home.comcast.net/stylemanual/betwrit.htm

Gary B. Larson guide@garbl.com Writing Worth Reading The Daily Mislead Archives: A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion American Prospect AlterNet Common Dreams Mother Jones ... Style Manual ] [ Concise Writing Guide ] [ Writing Bookshelf "Contrary to what some people seem to believe, simple writing is not the product of simple minds. A simple, unpretentious style has both grace and power. By not calling attention to itself, it allows the reader to focus on the message."Richard Lederer and Richards Dowis, More Words of Wisdom If you want to make your writing easier to read and understand, use . This free guide provides alternatives to overstated, pompous words; wordy, bureaucratic phrases; and verbose, sometimes amusing redundant phrases: Shorter, simpler words Wordy phrase replacements Redundant phrase replacements This annotated directory lists Web sites with tips to help you cut the fat from your writingso your readers can easily chew, digest and be nourished by your top-choice words. Web sites that can help you use plain languageor plain Englishto match your needs with the needs of your readers through clear and concise words and sentences.

18. BBC - Get Writing - Word Play - A2123362 word play. Writers of all levels of experience are present on Get writing and everyone has something to contribute, from absolute beginners to those with a few http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/getwriting/A2123362

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index SATURDAY 12th June 2004 Text only HOMEPAGE MY PORTFOLIO WRITE ... FEEDBACK Related Links Communicate Drama Radio 4 People's War ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! New visitors: Returning BBCi members: WORD PLAY There’s a place for serious discussion but there’s also a place to kick back and talk around the houses and this is it – still with a writerly bent of course, but in a more casual manner than hard technical talk of Art and Craft There are some House Rules to be aware of: Writers of all levels of experience are present on Get Writing and everyone has something to contribute, from absolute beginners to those with a few novels under their belt. Everyone is entitled to voice their opinions just as you are entitled to disagree with them, but please be polite and constructive in your posts. Please try and keep to the topic in any one thread. If inspiration strikes and you want to head off on a tangent, just start a new thread – you can always post a link to it on the original one. If you are uncomfortable with the way a discussion is going, feel free to draw everyone’s attention to the House Rules. If the situation persists or you feel the House Rules have been broken, alert the moderators using the ‘!’ button.

19. The Word | BBC World Service On this week s edition of our writing programme, The word , we speak to the play s writers Victoria Britain and Gillian Slovo. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/the_word.shtml

Text Only Version Help World Service Programmes ... In Depth RELATED SITES The Word A-Z PROGRAMMES LIST 5 Minute Bulletin A Place in Paradise A World for Children Africa Live African Performance African Perspective African Playwriting African Rhythms All In A Day's Work America Speaks Analysis Antarctic Midwinter Artbeat Assignment Battle of Jenin Big Question Charlie Gillett Children's Rights Competitions Death on the Roads Discovery Earth Summit 2002 Electric Journeys Elementary Essential Guide Europe Today Everywoman Fast Track Fespaco Film Festival Focus on Africa Football Extra From Our Own Correspondent Global Business Global Crime Report Globalisation Go Digital Guide to World Music Health Health Matters Heart and Soul How To Write Hunt for Al Qaeda I Have A Right To ... In Concert In Praise of God In the Field Inside BBC Journalism Instant Guide Iraq One Year On Jigsaw in Pieces John Peel Just For Laughs Latin American Books Learning English Letter Letter from America Letters from Europe Masterpiece Masterprize 2001 Maths: Figure it Out Memorable Sounds Middle East debate Music Biz Music Feature Music Review My Century Network Africa Network Europe New Europe Newshour Off The Shelf One Planet Our London Outlook Pick of the World Play of the Week Poetry Political Songs Pop: All Back to Mine Postmark Africa Question Time Reporting Religion Routes of English Science Postbag Science in Action Science of Sport Seeing Stars Sexwise Sports International Sports Roundup Sportsworld Story of Africa Talking Point The Interview The Making of Saddam The Ticket The Word The World The World Speaks

20. Word Play Fun word play Fun. ALPHABENT Try writing a sentence in which successive letters of the alphabet are used. The sentence may begin with http://www.berkeleyprep.org/lower/fourth/writing/word_play_fun.htm

Word Play Fun ALPHABENT: Try writing a sentence in which successive letters of the alphabet are used. The sentence may begin with any alphabet letter as long as the letters are in succession. Example: A dam b egged C arol, " D on't e at f rankfurters!" ALLITERATION: Write a four to five word sentence using the same beginning letter. Example: Adam ate an apple and an artichoke. ACROSTIC: Write a rather long word such as SICKNESS down the left side of the paper then write the same word going up the right side of the paper. Try to create words that begin and end in the same letter as listed. Make the words as long as possible. Each letter counts as a point. Winner is the one with the most points. Here is an example using the above word. SassafraS,InvestigationS,CorrodE,KeeN, NotebooK, ElectroniC, etc. (A good lesson for using the dictionary!) COLLECTIONS: Make ongoing collections of words by writing them on 12x18 construction paper or oak tag. Introduce, then encourage children to add to them as the year progresses. Palindrome: words, phrases, or sentences that are spelled the same front wards and backwards such

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