Yay, I’ve been looking forward to this!

Want to spend the summer writing with your favorite authors? Look who’s joining us for Teachers Write this summer! https://t.co/akXqzQrU05

— Kate Messner (@KateMessner) July 2, 2017

#TeachersWrite with Kate Messner, Jo Knowles, Gae Polisner, Jen Vincent, and other professional authors is coming right up. It officially starts on Monday, 10 July 2017. Gae started Friday Feedback yesterday, with guest author Nora Raleigh Baskin.

#teacherswrite officially starts MONDAY, but our sneak peek Friday Feedback w @noraraleighB is already hopping! YAY! https://t.co/6dIpN4uaiv

— gae polisner (@gaepol) July 7, 2017

On Fridays, Gae and her guest authors, share one excerpt of their writing and elicit feedback from the Teachers Write participants. It not only gives them feedback, but it helps us learn to give feedback–What works? What doesn’t work? Do you want to keep reading?–they start with what works to honor the risk the author takes in sharing their work. This Friday, they were so timely. In 24 hours they have read and responded to scores of comments on their post, even though they are also participating in the Nerdy Book Club’s nErDCamp in Michigan. Here is a link to my comment, and you can scroll down to see their fabulous feedback on yesterday’s post.

This summer, I will try to act like an author and be disciplined to write for this significant writing teachers’ summer camp. I’ll post my attempts here at my student portfolio sample blog at this link: http://testblogscs.edublogs.org (NOTE ABOUT THAT NAME: This was the very first blog I ever made, almost 8 years ago–thus the name, it was a test blog for my school at the time, SCS. And that is why I hang in there with it–sentimental value to me, but it also reminds me to choose names carefully.)

Did you know this great writer’s camp is all free to participate? The authors only ask that, if possible, you add four books to your library this summer–one each from Kate, Gae, Jo, and one of their guests. We are buying books anyway, so why not? Read more about this, and to see the many books they have written here or here.

Here is a quote from Gae Polisner about MAKING time to do what you want and need to do.  (Read more inspiration at her 2015 Feedback post here.)

“…the difference between people who do and people who don’t…those who do don’t find the time, they MAKE it.” ~ @gaepol #teacherswrite

— Denise Krebs (@mrsdkrebs) July 7, 2017

Have you heard of Teachers Write? Have you participated?
Are you planning to? Will you make time? It’s not too late to join.