Posting on Youth Voices

Don't post your first draft.  Go through the four-draft process.
1. What's going on in my community or the world that concerns me?  Write for 10 minutes.
2. Now write a focused sentence.  A perfectly written, opinionated sentence that re-states your entire freewrite.  Freewrite again for 10 minutes starting with your focused sentence.
3. Insert a Creative Commons image or one of your own.
    Here are some other places to find images

• flickr creative commons
• stock exchange
• MorgueFile
• Wikimedia
• Blue Mountains

4. Freewrite for a third time, this time with the image in mind.  How does the image represent what you are trying to get across in your post?
5. Using Google Reader or Bloglines, add two quotations from other blogs or news items that you have read about this topic.
6. Freewrite a final time with these quotations in mind.  How does each quote add to the message in your post?

When you comment on someone else's post, do the following:
- Write meaningful comments
- Show the writer you “hear” them
- Share some of yourself when you comment
- Criticize kindly