Unschool for Writers
Alison AchesonPlaying and working with words: finding your own way to fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and writing for young people
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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#11 in the Lessons from Published Works
A Little House in a Big Place
I love this picture of a friend’s daughter reading my book—photo by Holly Flauto Salmon (check out her recently released book of poetry, Permission to Settle.)
What To Do With a Misbehaving Novel Manuscript
Photo by Carol Highsmith's America on Unsplash
Regular readers may recognize this post, updated from several years ago.
Stories are written as they come. And how they come is often not linear.
John Irving claims to write his closin...
July 1 Bit o’ Everything Monthly Post
Background and Welcome:
Welcome to The Unschool for Writers, if you are new here! On the first of each month (sometimes the second; in this case the third), I post a mix-up of monthly re-cap, often a prompt, a note-worthy piece from the ar...
An early reader/chapter book to workshop
A re-write from an earlier picturebook sub from Sandi
Alison’s note: do NOT share or re-stack this post in any way—thank you for keeping the privacy of our workshop—
Writing with Fences
Constrained writing
(A re-working of an ageing archived post!)
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I've published picturebooks to memoir for adults, with a new novel, BLUE HOURS, being released this spring. Taught in the MFA program at UBC for 14 years--if that means anything. Canadian with a border.
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