Posts by Wayne
Teen Instruction: Academic Coaching
Recently, my Academic Coaching was successful for two students, ages 13 and 15. One prepared creative writing and dramatic monologue auditions for an arts magnet school, learning new approaches to excel in writing and presentation. On her first try, she was accepted! The other, a high school freshman, worked on getting up to speed with…
Read MoreChange Adds Up
Thirty-one million, five hundred and thirty-five thousand, nine-hundred and ninety seconds go by without much awareness, yet we make the final ten a collective concentrated countdown. At the final tick, we instantly let go of all the seconds from the year before and enthusiastically kiss in another block of time. When the clock strikes midnight,…
Read MoreHoliday Present: Claim Your Good
Are you naughty or nice to your writer self? As you explore and grow as a writer, you discover, like all of us, that writing involves much more than computers, ergonomic chairs and trendy standing desks, as well as many more skills than you learned in school. Put those toys aside, and imagine what gift…
Read MoreTeen Writer Success: ‘Real Job’ Seeker
Academic Coaching available Writing resumes and cover letters can be daunting to students. This rite of passage on the track from school to career forces them to truthfully examine their lives and, perhaps more difficult, write persuasively about it. Sixty students piled in the classroom equipped for 25 at my workshop for freshmen at Georgia…
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