[writeclub] Quote Cards for #nanowrimo Writers

As part part #nanowrimo I have been regularly creating quote cards for my students. I guess I am hoping that the quote cards inspire them to write a bit more. Collectively they have written over 20,000 words so far, I think that it is a fabulous effort.

Here is what I created using Canva and gathered the quotes from various quoting sources online.

[writeclub] Day 12 NaNoWriMo breaking though writers block

It is nearly half way through the NaNoWriMo challenge and several of the students have hit the writers block wall.

So lots of talk at Write Club today about how to punch through that wall:

• Building good writing habits, 
• using the kitchen timer to drop everything and just write for 20 minute,
• giving yourself permission to jump around the story rather than write from start to end in chronological order.

The students have so far written over 20 thousand words combined with an average of 1800 words per story. I think that it is a great effort!

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I've been keeping them motivated by providing gummy snakes and/or bears and every few day I put our another motivational quote card for the kids to collect and decorate their writing space with.

[writeclub] Day 6 #NaNoWriMo

Today was Day 6 for NaNoWriMo today and we set-up one of the big tables in the Learning Commons with a "reserved" sign for students participating in the month-long writing program. 

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When National Novel Writing Month was mentioned we had three students interested in it, today at lunchtime we had eight students sitting around the table typing away. The students seem to be liking the little quote cards that I have been making in Canva; printed in 280 gsm card.

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I have '1k', '2k' and '3k' badges for students that have made it past these milestones. The badges are not my idea, I have just adapted them for our kids.

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The next write-in session will be on Friday with treats and more quote cards, I can't wait to read what the students have written.

[writeclub] Day 1 #Nanowrimo in the Learning Commons

Day 1 NaNoWriMo and we originally had three girls interested in doing the writing competition.
Something happened and we now have 8.

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A sign in sheet, some gummy bears, quote card and button badges for all. An old typewriter was also set up for students to tinker on; I think that it added to the ambiance!

The lunchtime was spent writing the first section of their 3,000 stories. Here is a summary of the ones that I read at the end of the teaching day:

• A World War III spy thriller with a fortune teller.
• A girl who lives in a bland world discovers colour.
• A girl falls down a portal and travels back in time to meet her grandmother.

In Australia we have a four day long weekend, which coincides with a horse race on Tuesday. I am hoping that many of the students will find the time to do some writing over the weekend and I will have some more entertaining stories to read on Wednesday of next week.