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All Access Pass for Curated Short Story Resources
Grammar Conversations Overview
Social Justice Writing Project
180 Days of Quickwrites
All Summer in a Day
Space Alien Invasion Creative Writing Unit

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Experienced adult writers are intimidated by the NaNoWriMo project, which entails writing a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Who thought up such an event when writing is usually a much longer labor of love? Now imagine the faces of 8th graders when presented with this project? A teaching veteran of 30 years, […]

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