About Creative Writing for Teens http://teenwriting.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Creative Writing for Teens GuideSite. en-us teenwriting 2006-04-14T10:36:16Z About.com http://z.about.com/d/lg/rss.gif http://about.com/ Quote of the Week http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257128.htm Joyce Carol Oates: The practicing writer, the writer-at-work, the writer immersed in his or her project, is not an entity at all, let alone a person, but a curious melange... 2006-04-18T12:22:13Z Updates! http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257127.htm I've been updating some of the smaller submissions today. There are new cliches in the cliches list; new tips in How to Get Ideas, How to Get Started, and How... 2006-04-14T10:36:16Z Quote of the Week http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257126.htm J.R.R. Tolien: Creative Fantasy is founded upon the hard recognition that things are so in the world as it appears under the sun; on a recognition of fact, but not... 2006-04-11T09:54:07Z New Poetry http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257125.htm Here are all the latest successful submissions from the poetry slush file: Attempt to Write by kat. Po-po by beks. Graveyard Shift by D. L. Packer. Trees by three-letters-long. Bitter-Sweet Winter by Miss Bluesky. The Bounds... 2006-04-09T15:42:02Z Quote of the Week http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257124.htm Garth Nix: For all my longer works (i.e the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. (For more writerly quotes, see... 2006-04-04T15:08:46Z New Fiction http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257123.htm At last the latest fiction from the slush file: Omen by Karissa M.Every other Saturday, a group of thirty or so 15, 16 and 17 year-olds convened in the Anglican Church... 2006-03-31T14:23:37Z New Non-Fiction http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/257111.htm Here are the latest non-fiction submissions that made it through the selection process: Rambling by Willy K. Constant movement, I cannot sit still, the blank screen stares back at me, taunting... 2006-03-31T13:03:04Z Quote of the Week http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/256037.htm Mary Gentle: . . . it matters that I get it right. That a sword weighs this much, and cuts like that, even if it's being handled by a... 2006-03-28T14:53:53Z Here they are, the last of the submissions to the Unnamed Abstract Challenge http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/255240.htm Here they are, the last of the submissions to the Unnamed Abstract Challenge: My Charge, fiction by Counterfission. Beyond the Storm, fiction by Emma L. This Is a Poem, poetry by Joel Stein. Longing,... 2006-03-25T21:53:49Z Quote of the Week http://teenwriting.about.com/b/a/254091.htm Alan Lightman: A good novel gets under our skin, provokes us and haunts us long after the first reading, because we never fully understand the characters. For more writerly quotes, see... 2006-03-21T20:27:22Z