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This Year, Tell Better Stories

Whether it's a lunch break between shifts, a ride home on the bus with a stranger, or a lengthy conversation before bed with our family, let's do our...

Don’t Be Precious

It’s only natural to be precious with our writing because we’ve worked for it. We’ve put the mental strain in, believed in our ideas, and...

Page Don’t Lie

Everyone, adults and children alike, cannot stop themselves from thinking all day long. We’re basically professional thinkers—if we were to put our...

Not Disney

In one of the older groups I teach, the students have created a phrase that seems totally antithetical to the foundation of Written Out Loud. And I...

Breaking the Mold

I’m not sure where this comes from, but in every story I write there’s always a pull to write a scene that already exists. The “cat stuck in a tree”...

Perspective

We’re all lenses into the world; more than that, we construct models of everything around us, creating perspective. Perspective is a unique reality,...

The Human; the Observer

All day we go through the world with two perspectives in our heads: the Human, who is deeply involved in what is going on, and the Observer, who...

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