Teresa BuczinskyHello HWOC parents!Please encourage your kids to keep adding their most impressive work to this portfolio throughout high school. Portfolios are a great way…May 28, 2020May 28, 2020
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftList Poetry: A Prompt for the ListlessAdmit it–sometimes you’d find it easier to pull out your own tooth than write a decent line of poetry. If you haven’t experienced that day…Mar 20, 20171Mar 20, 20171
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftCreative Writing Rule #3: Show, don’t tell.Look at the picture below to see an example of the telling/showing spectrum in writing.Mar 14, 2017Mar 14, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftIncantations: Using Words for Power and TransformationHumankind’s first poetry was used to invoke the gods, to bring rain, to make a sick person well again, or, more fiendishly, to make a well…Mar 8, 2017Mar 8, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftThe Snap of a Mindful Line BreakA line break is the place where a poet decides to drop to the next line in a poem. It sounds like no big deal, but the poet who ignores…Mar 7, 2017Mar 7, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftThe Art of the Steal: Claiming Words from OthersI do not mean to encourage you to plagiarize. Plagiarism is an ignominious, cowardly crime practiced by louts, dullards, and sluggish…Mar 6, 2017Mar 6, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyThe Ghosts of Place: Using Imagery to Reveal a StoryIn his show, “On This Site,” photographer Joel Sternfeld displayed fifty places in America where violence occurred. His photographs show…Feb 23, 2017Feb 23, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftFoul Expression: Recognizing What Stinks in PoetryEven if you have never studied poetic devices and prosody, you know bad poetry when you hear it. Like the rest of us, you have groaned over…Feb 22, 2017Feb 22, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftMining Your Memories: Brainstorming Techniques to Unlock the Writer’s PastYour memories include more material than you could use in a lifetime of writing. In fact, if you have a normal, healthy brain, you have so…Feb 17, 2017Feb 17, 2017
Teresa BuczinskyinThe LiftDialogue Enhanced — Reversals and Dress UpsYesterday we practiced writing dialogue by creating a tense scene between a character very much like yourself and an angry parent. After…Feb 9, 2017Feb 9, 2017
