Happy Poetry Friday, everyone! Linda at TeacherDance is our hostess this week. She has a review of the adorable new Sleep, My Bunny by Rosemary Wells and a giveaway opportunity. Don’t miss it!
While my 20 Kindergarten writers were the original inspiration for Brave Writer, as I pondered, poked, and prodded my poem in place, I realized all writers and poets will identify with the emotions one goes through when staring at a blank page.
I intentionally excluded a joyous eureka moment at its conclusion. Every time I open my notebook, I wonder where to begin. Don’t you?
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Wondering and Wandering 
When I saw your post title, I thought maybe you were going to be talking about Karen’s Brave Writer (https://bravewriter.com/teachers/karen-edmisten). I love how you are honoring your students’ experience!
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Interesting. Actually the inspiration for the title, Brave Writer, came from the current TCRWP unit I am teaching involving brave spellers.
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I love this! Yes, we are all brave writers, aren’t we? By the way, every time I visit your blog I am taken back to Walden Pond, such a favorite haunt of mine when I lived on Baker Farm Road. It’s where I began my writing journey, actually, and became a brave writer.
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What a wonderful place to live, BJ. I love soaking up the writing aura of Alcott, Thoreau, Emerson, Hawthorne, and others that permeates my neck of the woods!
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Yes, young and old, all brave to have those “lines and curves begin working together”. Happy Writing, Christie!
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Thank, Linda!
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What a much-needed reminder, especially on those days when the words just don’t seem to flow right!
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Oh yes, I can certainly relate–everyone who takes pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) is a brave writer. Like,you, I often wonder where the blank page will lead–and am often surprised.
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Onward “Brave writer” great inspiration for us all, and your flock of fledgling writers too!
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I love how you consistently find inspiration in your students, Christie! Brave Writer does speak to all of us though, young or on-the-verge-of-old.
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