Neon Words: 10 Brilliant Ways to Light Up Your Writing

by Marjorie White Pellegrino, Kay Sather

Overview

Neon Words is a book that will illuminate the writer in you.

By using the tools and activities here, you’ll connect the word-organizing part of your brain with your free-ranging imagination—and you’ll love what you’ve captured on the page! It’s an exciting, confidence-boosting, and deeply satisfying experience.
 
Whether you want to be a writer, or just want to explore what it’s like to create with language, you’ll discover that playing with words can help you be more present in your life and, best of all, it’s lots of fun. Who knew writing could be so enlightening?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433830495
Publisher:	American Psychological Association
Publication date:	05/21/2019
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	890L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Marge Pellegrino is a teaching artist who facilitates writing and expressive arts workshops in schools, libraries, and community settings for challenged and mainstream audiences. Her books include Too Nice, My Grandma’s the Mayor, and the award winning Journey of Dreams. She co-wrote The Sculpture Speaks: A Refugee’s Story of Survival, which supports the work of the Owl & Panther program for refugee families impacted by torture and traumatic dislocation.  She grew up in New York and lives with her family in Tucson, AZ. Visit MargePellegrino.com and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marge.pellegrino.

Kay Sather is an experienced designer, illustrator, editor, and freelance writer. She’s currently finishing a book about the hand-sculpted mud guesthouse she built in her desert backyard. She lives in Tucson, AZ.
 

Table of Contents

Dear Reader
Expressive Writing Has Many Benefits
Chapter 1: Make It Personal
Chapter 2: Remember the Details
Chapter 3: Switch It Up
Chapter 4: Look Who's Talking
Chapter 5: The Antagonist
Chapter 6: Trash to Treasure
Chapter 7: Follow Your Dreams
Chapter 8: The Art of the Unexpected
Chapter 9: Talk Back
Chapter 10: Heroes
Glow On!
About the Authors

Editorial Reviews

07/15/2019

Written with the aim of emboldening young writers, this volume takes the reader through various writing exercises, techniques, and styles to, as the introduction puts it, “connect the word-organizing part of your brain with your free-ranging imagination.” Pellegrino and Sather speak to the reader in an approachable voice free of technical writing jargon, aiming to engage writers along the many possible stages of the writing process. Organized by chapters such as “Make It Personal” and “Remember the Details,” their guidance succeeds in being consistently lively and patient without patronizing (“Altered books use a traditional physical book as a medium for writing and art.... You get to play creatively while exercising your word, logic, art, and kinesthetic skills”). Whatever the writer’s capacity, time constraints, or creative mood, these pages offer a trove of ideas to spark inspiration, among them exercises and crafting activities such as list making, shape poems, hand-crafted haiku holders, dialogue practice, and journaling. A helpful and enjoyable desk-side tool. Ages 12–up. (May)

Publishers Weekly

An engaging collection of ideas for group assignments, and fun for individuals, too.” —Booklist

“Whatever the writer’s capacity, time constraints, or creative mood, these pages offer a trove of ideas to spark inspiration, among them exercises and crafting activities such as list making, shape poems, hand-crafted haiku holders, dialogue practice, and journaling. A helpful and enjoyable desk-side tool.” —Publishers Weekly

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