Teaching creative writing : a teaching handbook with weekly lesson plans plus an abundance of writing ideas / Valerie Hockert.

Eliminate writers' block and creatively express one's thoughts through creative writingDo you need some yawn-proof and sleep-proof writing exercises to get your students to actively participate? Then this book is for you, as it is very complete and is designed to be taught over 16 weeks. It can, of course, be taught in less, by combining some of the lessons into one week. So it would work with an 8-week or even a12-week course schedule.The book includes many creative writing exercises to get the creative juices flowing, and is a more understandable and comprehensible textbook than those of its competitors. Various types of paragraph development and stories to rewrite are all designed to get the students' creative juices flowing, and have proved to be quite beneficial to students of various writing levels.