Wild Words: How to Train Them to Tell Stories

by Sandy Asher, Dennis Kendrick

Presents advice for budding writers on how to put ideas down on paper in language that is expressive and literate, how to bring characters to life, how to line up a plot, and how to polish the final product.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Sandy Asher, a playwright and children's author, is probably best known for her young-adult novels and other prose works for young readers. Drawing many of the ideas and characters for her writings from her childhood memories, Asher has earned critical praise and numerous awards for novels such as Just like Jenny, Things Are Seldom What They Seem, and Everything Is Not Enough. In addition to fiction, Asher has also edited the story collections On Her Way: Stories and Poems about Growing up Girl and the award-winning With All My Heart, with All My Mind: Thirteen Stories about Growing up Jewish, which collect works that address many of the same adolescent concerns Asher confronts in her fiction.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

Initial thoughts after reading (found in a notebook): A pretty good book, but the sticker on it was mislabeled, this is definitely meant to much younger kids and they would probably like it better and not think it was childish.