Details (golden), character (immortal), and setting (rural India) / Dave Eggers
Literary Facebooks / Kathryn Riddle
Suburban epics / Tom Perrotta
Busted / William John Bert
How to write science fiction / Cory Doctorow
Writing from experience / Stephen Elliott
Too much money! An ethical writing experience in 10 easy steps / Louanne Johnson
The talk show circuit / Ellie Kemper
The first draft is my enemy : revisions / Sarah Vowell
See you again yesterday : playing with time / Audrey Niffenegger
Look smart fast : college application essay boot camp / Risa Nye
Writing about painful things / Phoebe Gloeckner
Mutant Shakespeare / Kyle Booten
How to write a one-person show about a historical figure / Kristen Schaal
Writing for gamers / Tom Bissell
Humor writing : an exercise in alchemy / Dan Kennedy
On pining : writing a verse to make them stay / Thao Nguyen
Adding insult to poetry / Nicholas Decoulos
Bad writing / Neal Pollack
Where stories come from / Julie Orringer
Word karaoke / Matthue Roth
Tall tales and short stories / Steve Almond
Welcome to the funhouse : writing funny scenes / Mark O'Donnell. Voicemails from my future self / Mark Sipowicz
How short is short? / Vendela Vida
Comic composition challenge! / Steven Weissman, Jordan Crane
My boring life / Micah Pilkington
Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick : how to write a mystery / Julianne Balmain
Creating characters / Jonathan Ames
High school confidential : how to write a young-adult novel / Matthue Roth
Get your haiku on / Daphne Gottlieb
The essay / Meghan Daum
The story of me : writing about your life and your family / Jason Roberts
Meet your protagonist! / Ryan Harty
All witnesses eventually die : embarrassing stories / Erika Lopez
Wicked style and how to get it / Micah Pilkington
President takes Martian bride : writing tabloid fiction / Alvin Orloff
Lying for fun and profit / Emily Katz
This class sucks / Kazz Regelman, Andrew Strickman
Screenwriting / Noah Hawley
How to write a ghost story / Lisa Brown, Adele Griffin
826 unplugged : songwriting / Chris Perdue
Sportswriting : the life / Sam Silverstein, Jason Turbow
How to write a fan letter without getting a restraining order / Lisa Lutz
Exquisite story lines / Jeremy Wilson, Kait Steele
Soul prowlers : the art of writing newspaper profiles / Rona Marech
Homestyle : writing about the place where you live / Tom Molanphy
Agitate! Propagandize! / Julius Diaz Panoringan
Tasty medicine for writer's block : mindful writing exercises / Brad Wolfe, Rebecca Stern
High school ink : getting published / Lara Zielin

Getting your students excited about writing begins with offering projects that are interesting, relevant, and challenging. This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans for mature young writers developed by the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing centers. These lessons cover a myriad of skills (developing characters and voice), interests (novel-writing, song- writing, screenwriting), and even interest levels. (Don't believe us? try out "This Class Sucks" or "My Boring Life" for those especially hard-to-reach writers.) Each unique lesson is written by educators, 826 volunteers, celebrated authors, actors, and writers.