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A Writers Notebook is.

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An incubator..a protective place to keep your infant ideas safe and warm a place for ideas to grow..and survive.. A WRITERS NOTEBOOK, Ralph Fletcher

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An empty ditch. An empty space you dig in your busy life. a space that will fill up with all sorts of fascinating creatures. If you dig it..they will come . A WRITERS NOTEBOOK/Ralph Fletcher

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Nothing more than a blank book But..within those pages you have a powerful tool for writing and living Ralph Fletcher

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.gives you a place to live like a writer. Its a place to write down what makes you sad, angry or amazed. Ralph Fletcher

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a place to record what you notice. and dont want to forget.. to record what your grandmother whispered in your ear before she said good- bye for the last time..

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a place to wonder.. .. a place to reflect a place to discover your voice

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Important Uniquely your own Essential

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A writers notebook is a way to fuel up with superior, supreme unleaded. and its free. Naomi Shihab Nye

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Rereading notebooks is like reliving your life more important than money in the bank. NSN

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Photographsquotes, the language of other writers, newspaper clippings, notes from research, personal letters, daily entries, struggling rough drafts All of these and more, are part of a working writers notebook Louise Borden

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The secret of writing is There is no secret.writers are not hatched out of thin air

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Good writing happens when writers take particular steps to take control of their sentences, to make their words do what they want them to do. there is no secret to good writing, but there is a process..a writers notebook is a part of the process..

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So.. Lets start digging that ditch in our busy lives. Trust that marvelous things will get trapped within the pages of our writers notebook! The school-wide journey begins!