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Click here to view samples of Releasing The Writer Within tm writing techniques written by students and Hannah. Or, scroll down to view samples of class assignments.
Cool Down
By Keri N i was thinking, but mostly feeling, how easy it is to breathe, to sit in this chair, to drop my shoulders. there is a white light around me, but it has come from inside... Read More>> Letter To Body
By Julie Brigidi
My dear, dear Body....
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Write Naked
By Anonymous
I am cold, too cold to take off my pants and socks.
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Write Though The Tight Spots
By Marianne L'Abbate
I don’t know where to begin when I think about my back. In the last twenty-four hours, the character of my back pain has changed, which is odd considering that Hannah asked us last night to write a homework assignment about a body part. My back aches, has ached, for most of my life, on the lower right side. Sometimes the pain is just a dull, familiar ache. Sometimes it seems to settle in the space between my right hip bone and my right thigh bone.
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Untitled
By Monica Staaf
I stood next to the kitchen table and sorted my mail. I waited for my hot water to boil. A small pale blue envelope with the rounded penmanship of a schoolgirl appeared in the pile. I picked it up and examined it. The postmark said “Corinth, Ohio” but there was no return address.
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“The Moment” Writing Technique
By Anonymous
I am speeding through my town’s annual yard sale when I spot the table marked “Odds & Ends.” Glancing at the pile of rejected goods I notice a Black doll dressed in a pink chiffon party dress. While I pick up the doll and stare into its rubbery chocolate brown face I am suddenly transported back to my eighth birthday party.
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Sample of the Write From The Groin exercise.
By Anonymous
My mouth moistens at hearing Shakay’s description of those spicy triangles.
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Sample of the Write From The Groin exercise.
By Anonymous
A bushel of Georgia peaches awaits me, awaits being taken. I come home, feast my eyes on this delight, and laugh out loud. I breathe deeply, inhaling into my diaphragm the intoxicating aroma of ripe, juicy, fresh-from-the-tree peaches.
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Class Assignment: Describe the voice of another person through example.
By Hannah Thomas
Asher bounces into the kitchen when I ask him to come put his crayons and paper in the art box. He grabs the plastic container of crayons and it spills all over the linoleum.
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Sample: Be An Artist
By Nancy Kirsch
I unwrap the plump, goose-pimpled raw chicken from its wrapping of shiny brown paper. I lift it out of the pool of bloody juices encased in the paper. I wash the chicken, tenderly dry it as if it was a baby and place it in a scratched and nicked, but still oven-worthy, rectangular glass pan
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Sample of Writing From The Tight Spots exercise.
Maybe if I reach inside and breath into the spots I don’t feel or that feel so tight I don’t feel them…I’ll be able to feel them again? What if I did that with the pain of losing my father? Why?
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Two of The Three Rs
By Joanne Carnevale
I read, slowly, which is a problem because books are numerous and time is short. This reminds me that I once saw a bumper sticker on a man’s car that said: So many women, so little time. I thought, “Jerk!” Then, some months later I saw a woman’s car with a similar bumper sticker: So many men, so little time. I thought, “Bimbo!” If I were willing to affix a bumper sticker to my car it would read: So many books, so little time.
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Write Naked
By Charlene
I admit – I haven’t written naked – I got down to my T Shirt and I got interrupted.
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Write From The Head
By Anonymous
It had been raining all day. The roads were slippery.
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Write From The Throat
By Joanne Carnelvale
I am.
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Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 118
ISBN: 0-595-31265-9
Published: Mar-2004 |
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"Hannah Goodman has written a wonderfully witty, engrossing and hilarious novel about sisters and their relationships. Her prose is dead on and her scenes flow effortlessly from one to the other. I can't remember the last time I stayed up to finish a book, but I had to finish My Sister’s Wedding!"
Rosemary O’Brien, Author of First Saturday
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In the 2005 fall issue of East Bay Living, syndicated columnist cited several famous authors like Grisham and Patricia Cornwell as her favorite authors. She also added, "I also like local authors. There's a young adult book (My Sister's Wedding) by Hannah Goodman, a teacher who lives in Bristol (RI). It has great dialogue."
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Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 144
ISBN: 0-595-39430-2
Published: May-2004 6 |
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