10 Fun and Inspiring Books for Teen Writers
Homeschooling High School writing doesn’t have to be boring! Fun writing can be a skill builder too. Plus, there is the added bonus of developing your teen’s writing voice. When it comes to writing, authenticity is key and using out of the box writing experiences helps your teen to fall in love with their writing voice. 8 Fun & Inspiring Books for Teen Writers will show you the resources we use to help our teens to feel like writers.
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After all, we want our teens to become effective written communicators and that comes with viewing yourself as a writer, not just a doer of homework.
Enjoy some of our favorite books that will lead your teen to more authentic writing!
Books to Encourage Journal Writing
To be honest, I’m not much of a journal keeper in the traditional sense, although I do enjoy writing in my ink journal (any fountain pen lovers out there?) and I have success with keeping a Bullet Journal and a nature journal. The Bullet Journal Method focuses on intention, priorities, and reflection. I highly recommend it if you are overwhelmed.
However, these books are so much fun and they inspire me to try new things with my journaling. My teens loved them and I think yours will too!
- Wreck this Journal– a fun little daily prompt for doing crazy things with a journal. It’ll be fun to keep and to inspire creativity. They even have a version for teen girls!
- Journal Sparks: Fire up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking– 60 prompts to bring the fun to journaling with words, collage, drawing, and observation based list making. I personally love this one!
- Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel– this one makes great fodder for a travel journal and honestly, who among us doesn’t love a good map, handmade or otherwise?!
- The Art of the Travel Journal: Chronicle Your Life with Drawing, Painting, Lettering, and Mixed Media- Document Your Adventures Wherever they Take You– a how to on the travel journal which is another creative way to start journaling and adding your voice to the page
6 Week Writer’s Workshop
18 word and writing exercises for all ages, perfect for a writer’s workshop format
Fun & Inspiring General Writing Resources
This collection of books provides excellent assignments for a writer’s workshop.
- Rip the Page: Adventures in Creative Writing– open ended writing experiments and lots of encouragement. You can pop in anywhere in this book and have a good time!
- Leap Write In!: Adventures in Creative Writing to Stretch & Surprise Your One-of-a-Kind Mind– this one is great for discovering your writer’s voice through prompts, mini-memoirs, and surveys.
- Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook– this is a sweet book on how to find your voice and create characters and plot lines. We had the good fortune of hosting Ms. Mazer in our home for a writer’s workshop time and it was fantastic. She also wrote, The Salamander Room.
- Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly– this Newbury author shares her tricks of the trade and gives your teens writing exercises to light up their imagination
- Writer to Writer: From Think to Ink– the guide book on becoming a world class author with plenty of writing exercises
- Making Non-Fiction from Scratch– Love this book by Ralph Fletcher as he explains how to write non-fiction in a compelling way drawing on strategies from other genres of writing.
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