Ariel

I'm a creative writing major working on my last semester at UCA. My favorite things to write are poetry and fiction (all based on true life with pretty serious exaggerations lurking about). I'm taking Writing for Children Workshop, took the forms class last semester, and I'm not sure whether or not I'm cut out for this imaginative form. Imagination: not my strongest point. We'll see how it goes anyhow. Here's to a good semester!

My first workshop piece is excerpts from a longer story I've been working on titled //Getting Out of Debt//. I've changed it substantially, added and taken away a lot of material, and made it suitable for a YA audience. Let me know what you think!



I think everyone deals with the dreaded disease known as "Writer's Block" at some points in their writing life. For me, that was this week. On top of that, this is posted particularly late because I was originally signed up to workshop Thursday, so I had in my schedule that I didn't have to post my workshop piece until today and never changed it. Sorry for that inconvenience.

I wanted to write more chapters of //Getting Out of Debt//, but thanks to writer's block and accidentally leaving your critiques from last workshop at school, I couldn't. I would hate to continue working on the piece without taking workshop comments into consideration.

Instead, I've written a very rough picture book manuscript (so it shouldn't take too long to read). It's... sparse. I'm naturally a concise writer, so I was a little lax on the details for this one, coming in about 100 words under the ideal 500 word limit. I'm not even sure I got the right sentiments across. I appreciate all your critiques!



The final assignment is a Digital Author Report. I chose John Green, a magnificent YA writer. Wanna see my prezi.com presentation? Click the link: []