The SER Writing Regimen

Our Young Writer’s Regimen Re-Run finished up in October 2011, but a brand-new cycle will launch on APRIL 1st, 2012!

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 The 30-day regimen [for adults] was fantastic and I actually have my son participating in the YA regimen right now. —Sarah Joyce Bryant, winner of our Spring 2009 Regimen Contest to 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.

The Southeast Review’s 30-Day Writer’s Regimen (for adults)

UPDATE January 2011: Our next ALL-NEW-CONTENT Writing Regimen for Adults will launch on FEBRUARY 1st, 2012! Secure your spot now!

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 the latest issue of The Southeast Review, 30.1, featuring interviews with Dinty W. Moore and Lidia Yuknavitch, poetry by Clay Matthews and Tara Skurtu, fiction by Stephan Eirik Clark and Ashley Wurzbacher, the winners of our 2011 Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction, and World's Best Short-Short Story Contests, and so much more!
• 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

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