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Refine Your Creative Writing Skills

Need to sharpen your creative writing skills? Check out the titles below to practice mind-tickling exercises, prompts, and strategies to meet your fictional writing goals! Plus, you'll find new ways to express your inner writer and expand upon your unique talents and abilities.

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  • Neon Words

    10 Brilliant Ways to Light Up Your Writing

    Pellegrino, Marge,
    "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!"
    Book, 2019Washington, DC : Magination Press, American Psychological Association, [2019] — TEEN 808.02 PELLEGR
  • "This new edition of Painless Writing provides students with a lighthearted, step-by-step approach to understanding writing techniques."
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Kaplan Inc., d/b/a Barron's Educational Series, [2020] — TEEN 808.042 STRAUSS
  • "Help kids unleash their creative genius with F.W Prep, the how-to series filled with cool activities, innovative strategies, and multimedia approaches designed to stimulate out-of-the box thinking."
    Book, 2006New York : Franklin Watts, 2006. — TEEN 808.1 RYAN
  • "A step-by-step guide from testing your story ideas, to visualizing your characters' types and voices, to building a world that comes to life, to navigating the publishing industry, and going the distance to reach your writing goals."
    Book, 2020Springville, UT : Owl Hollow Press, [2020] — TEEN 808.3 JENKINS
  • Rip the Page!

    Adventures in Creative Writing

    Benke, Karen
    "Presents exercises and wordplay experiments to teach amateur writers how to enjoy writing creatively, and includes tips for finding inspiration, returning to old ideas with fresh perspectives, and retaining confidence in writing."
    Book, 2010Boulder : Roost Books, [2010] — TEEN 808.042 BENKE
  • ""An unconventional, irreverent, yet heartfelt memoir by Ryan Higa, one of the top creators on YouTube."
    Book, 2017New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — TEEN 792.7028 HIGA
  • "This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of sentence construction such as sentence types, clauses, and phrases, and shows how sentence structure can be used to convey complete ideas clearly in a range of text…
    Book, 2013Chicago, Illinois : Heinemann Library, 2013. — TEEN 428.2 VICKERS
  • Writing Magic

    Creating Stories That Fly

    Levine, Gail Carson,
    "Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of making magic with your writing."
    Book, 2014New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014] — TEEN 808.3 LEVINE
  • Seize the Story

    a Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write

    Hanley, Victoria
    "All of the elements of fiction, from creating believable dialogue to exciting plots, are laid out clearly and illustrated with examples taken straight from story excerpts by excellent writers. The book is packed with writing exercises designed to…
    Book, 2008[Fort Collins, Colo.] : Cottonwood Press, [2008] — TEEN 808.0208 HANLEY
  • "This book looks at a variety of topics, such as parts of speech, tense, person, and agreement, and shows how understanding types of words allows the writers and speakers to give power to their communication."
    Book, 2013Chicago, Illinois : Heinemann Library, [2013] — TEEN 425 VICKERS
  • "Explores and explains the craft of writing poetry by providing examples and exercises."
    Book, 2012New York : Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, [2012] — TEEN 808.1 MUSSARI
  • "An award-winning author guides readers through the writing process, and includes examples from his own works, outlines for writing fiction and nonfiction, and excerpted pages from the author's writing notebooks."
    Book, 2012New York : Collins, [2012] — TEEN 808.02 MYERS