The SER Writing Regimen

A new cycle of our Young Writer’s Regimen will wrap up soon, and then is set to RE-RUN starting on SEPTEMBER 3rd, 2012! Check back for more information or to purchase in August.

N.E. Bode (also known as Julianna Baggott, the bestselling author of four novels for adults, five novels for younger readers, and three collections of poetry) has teamed up with the editors of The Southeast Review at Florida State University’s Creative Writing Program Whether your student is a creative writer or not, this is a great way to motivate gifted and talented children to get excited about writing and literature as well as provide practice in free-writing, revision, peer-review, and structure.—Prufrock Press, longtime supplier of learning resources to gifted, advanced, and special needs learnersto create this 30-Day Regimen for Young Writers. Our hope is that, over the course of the regimen, you will be able to conduct your own mini-writing camp. Your students can create a new body of work—one that includes full drafts as well as brilliant, glimmering pieces of work that they would not otherwise have written … from poems to stories to wild and wooly plotlines.

The wonderful thing about young writers is that their imaginations are still often buoyant and overflowing. This writing regimen will help your most effervescent young writers find some structure. And, let’s face it, some students are reluctant writers. This writing regimen will also kick-start the imagination, hopefully inspiring those who need it most.

Each weekday morning for six weeks (30 days), you will receive a colorful, jam-packed email that will include the following:

• a Writing Exercise to jumpstart the imagination
• a Quote from a Famous Author to read aloud to your class for a discussion
• a Riff Word to prompt a free-write
• Mimicry Reading-Writing Exercises—We will supply a passage from a children’s novel to be read aloud, and then we will explain different ways children can use their listening skills and hone their ears to mimic the style that’s just been presented to them.
• Beyond the Page—These exercises are designed to take your students into other projects that go beyond what they’ve written, everything from research to art projects and beyond.
• Once a week you will receive a Craft Talk written solely for this project from bestselling, award-winning authors of picture books, middle-grade, YA, and adult novels. These writers will be talking about what they were like as young writers, their craft, their reading lives, and so on.
• There will also be a weekly missive from N.E. Bode—a funny message from one writer’s desk to another writer’s desk.

The cost is only $10 for the entire 30-day package. (Title I schools, please contact us for scholarship and fee-waiver information.)

By the end of these thirty days, we hope that your students will have written enough brilliant passages to keep their imaginations brewing and their pens moving for a very long time.

Email us for more information or click on the button below to sign up for the 30-Day Young Writer’s Regimen.

Two ways to pay:

You can send checks (please include your email address!) to:

Young Writer’s Regimen
The Southeast Review
Department of English
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306

Or use Google Checkout. When using Google Checkout, make sure to leave your e-mail address (do not check “confidential”) so that we may get in touch with you.

UPDATE APRIL 2012: Our next Writing Regimen RE-RUN for Adults will launch on JUNE 1st, 2012! Scroll down to purchase!

The Southeast Review Writing Regimen is for poets, essayists, and fiction “Perhaps the best $15 I’ve spent!”—Nick Wineriter, Summer 2011 participant writers who want to produce a body of work by introducing structure to their writing life, and, at the same time, finding new and innovative ways to approach their craft.

Sign up for The Southeast Review Writing Regimen and you will get the following:

• daily writing prompts, applicable for any genre, emailed directly to you for 30 DAYS! Use these to write a poem a day for 30 days, to create 30 short-short stories, or to give flesh to stories, personal essays, novels, and memoirs
• a daily reading-writing exercise, where we inspire you with a short passage from the books we’re reading and get you started writing something of your own
I gleaned mind-blowing inspiration from these exercises, coming up with voices and situations I wouldn’t have thought myself capable of. —Magdalen Powers
• A Riff Word of the Day, a Podcast of the Day from an editor, writer, or poet, and a Quote of the Day from a famous writer on writing
• Flashback Bonus Craft Talks, where, as a little something extra, we repeat an earlier regimen’s craft talks from more writing heavyweights
• weekly messages from established poets and writers—including tips and warnings on both the craft and the business of writing
• a FREE copy of a classic back issue of The Southeast Review, featuring interviews, poetry, nonfiction, and fiction that will knock your socks off!
• a chance to have your work published on our site.
• access to our online literary companion—www.southeastreview.org—for interviews with up-and-coming and established poets, fiction writers, and memoirists, podcasts of readings from the Warehouse Reading Series, including such writers as Ann Patchett, Jennifer Knox, Matthew Zapruder, Barry Hannah, . . . as well as essays on the reading life of writers, book picks, web picks, and much more . . .

All of this for just $15.00. That’s a mere 50 cents per day! Join us for a month and walk away with a new body of work!

You can send checks (please include your email address!) to:

Writer’s Regimen
The Southeast Review
Department of English
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306

Or use Google Checkout. When using Google Checkout, make sure to leave your e-mail address (do not check “confidential”) so that we may get in touch with you.

If you have questions, send an email to our editor of writing regimens.