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Language Writing Radar: Using Your Journal to Snoop Out and Craft Great Stories

Jack Gantos, illustrated by Jack Gantos

A creative-writing guide uses Gantos’s childhood journals, stories, and memories to offer advice to young writers. He looks back on his own adolescent misadventures as a writer while discussing ways to create, revise, and improve stories. The book focuses on building writing habits and confidence through journal-based observation and practice. Humorous line drawings appear alongside the author’s recollections and practical suggestions for shaping work into finished stories.

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Themes
Art And Creativity · Growing Up · Humor · Writing And Storytelling
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-13
9780374304560
Language
English
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