Writing+Ideas

Write about an awesome thing.
Check out this site: http://1000awesomethings.com/ It has short pieces of writing about 1000 awesome things. Read some. Write one of your own. We can publish them to our wiki. By the end of the year, maybe we will have 29 awesome things (or more).

Listen to some on npr's website: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138 Write your own. Make it into a podcast for our wiki. Submit it to npr.
 * Write a "This I Believe" essay.**

Sometimes, if you have strong feelings about a situation involving another person it helps to write him/her a letter. If you don't plan to send it, you can say exactly what you want without worrying about how it will affect her/him. Getting to express yourself in this way allows you to blow off steam and come to a deeper understanding of how you feel.
 * Write a letter that you may never send.**

Write a villanelle.
Perhaps the most famous villanelle is Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" On this site you can read it and listen to it: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15377 Wikipedia has a page that explains the form of a villanelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle I have a hard copy of couple that kids did last year. I will put them here soon.

More to come...