The Writing Club

I really do think that the hardest thing about creating a blog is naming it.  So, for the moment, I am trying out “The Writing Club,” partly because I want this to be a place that people can come to to find inspiration for their own writing, and partly because I was able to eke out a moderately effective double-meaning using Jack London’s quote.  Get it?  Get it?

This blog is part of a classroom project with my grade 10 students.  Each student will maintain a blog of their own for the entire year.  There are no rules for what they write about, except for the rules listed below.  The goal is that they write.  If you are visiting this blog as one of my students, you will see examples of ME writing about what I am interested in, and hopefully one or two things on the site will spark your imagination as to what you could write about.  You can write reviews (books, movies, plays, video games, etc.) fiction, poetry, your observations about life, your family, your hamster, the gum you stepped in this morning on the way to school.  You can celebrate the Leafs victory of the previous night (Go, Leafs, Go!) or you can express your outrage at the latest plot twist on “Lost.  You can write about anything that tickles your fancy.

Writing is like exercising a muscle.  The more you do it, the easier it becomes … and the more you want to do it.  Jules Renard said that “writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted,” and I agree with him.  Let’s put our ideas out in the the world, and see what comes back.

Come on by to the page whenever you want.  I hope to include writing tips, other blogs for inspiration, writings and musings of my own, advice from the pros and ideas to prompt your own writing.  Write on!