Neon Words
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Neon Words is a book that will illuminate the writer in you.
By using the tools and activities here, you'll connect the word-organizing part of your brain with your free-ranging imagination — and you'll love what you've captured on the page! It's an exciting, confidence-boosting, and deeply satisfying experience.
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. Who knew writing could be so enlightening?
Marge Pellegrino is a teaching artist who facilitates writing and expressive arts workshops in schools, libraries, and community settings for challenged and mainstream audiences.
Her books include Too Nice, My Grandma's the Mayor, and the award winning Journey of Dreams. She co-wrote The Sculpture Speaks: A Refugee's Story of Survival, which supports the work of the Owl & Panther program for refugee families impacted by torture and traumatic dislocation.
She grew up in New York and lives with her family in Tucson, AZ.
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Kay Sather is an experienced designer, illustrator, and freelance writer. She lives in Tucson, AZ.
Whatever the writer's capacity, time constraints, or creative mood, these pages offer a trove of ideas to spark inspiration, among them exercises and crafting activities such as list making, shape poems, hand-crafted haiku holders, dialogue practice, and journaling. A helpful and enjoyable desk-side tool.
—Publishers Weekly
An engaging collection of ideas for group assignments, and fun for individuals, too.
—Booklist