Prompts from Gale Carson Levine

Pick a prompt (suggested by Gale Carson Levine, author of Ella Enchanted):

• I have one green eye and one brown eye.  The green eye sees truth, but the brown eye sees much, much more.
•  The ghost was eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
•  "Be nice," my father said.  "After all, he's your brother."
• I am the most famous twelve-year-old (or thirteen-year-old) in the United States.
• If somebody didn't do something soon, they were going to have a catastrophe on their hands.
• Jason (or another name) had never felt so foolish before, and he hoped he'd never feel so foolish again.

Rules for Writing from Gale Carson Levine: 
1. The best way to write better is to write more.
2. The best way to write better is to write more.
3. The best way to write better is to write more.
4.  The best way to write more is to write whenever you have have five minutes and whenever you find a chair and a pen and paper or your computer.
5.  Read!  Most likely you don't need this rule.  If you enjoy writing, you probably enjoy reading.  The payoff for this pleasure is that reading books shows you how to write them.
6.  Reread!  There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.  When you do, the words get inside you, become part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.
7.  Save everything you write, even if you don't like it, even if you hate it.  Save it for a minimum of fifteen years.  I'm serious.  At that time, if you want to, you can throw it out, but even then don't discard your writing lightly.    (fromWriting Magic, page 5)

We also read part of her chapter from Writing Magic about "Show and Tell."

See  An Author's Blog.