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  • Lesson Plans
    • Teaching Guides
    • Cool Educational Links for Teachers
    • Research: Passport to History MRA handout
    • Appomattox Courthouse
    • John Brown at Harper's Ferry
    • Fredericksburg
    • Bridging History: Mackinac Island
    • De-Mystifying the Writing Process
    • Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp Vocabulary Lesson
    • Traders in Time Vocabulary Lesson
  • Programs
    • Top Reasons to use Books by JL Panagopoulos in your Classroom
  • Research
    • Historical Research
    • Bibliography
    • Historical Chronology
    • What are Sources?
    • Google Earth Files
    • DIY Google Earth
    • Videos
    • Lumbering Background and Links
    • Research Links
  • Writing Fun!
    • Special Event: Kaleidoscope Authors
    • Train to Midnight Rap
    • Writing Tip
    • Grandma's Grammar
    • Students Writing: Write a Story!
    • Editing
    • Be a Wordsmith and Collect Words
    • 7 Words of Communication
    • Our Favorite Things!
    • Graphic Organizer: Create You Own!
    • The History of Language
    • Write a Haiku
    • Collect
    • Ebooks by JL Panagopoulos
  • Janie Lynn Panagpoulos
    • NEWS
    • J. L. Panagopoulos Bio
    • From the Writer's Desk Blog
    • Contact
    • Interview With J.L. Panagopoulos
  • River Road Publications
    • Journey Back to Lumberjack Camp
    • Mark of the Bear Claw
    • North to Iron Country
    • Erie Trail West
    • Calling the Griffin
    • A Faraway Home: An Orphan Train Story
    • Train to Midnight
    • A Place Called Home: Michigan's Mill Creek Story
    • Castle at the Straits: History of the Inhabitants of the Straits of Mackinac
    • Little Ship Under Full Sail: An Adventure in History
    • Traders in Time: A Dream-Quest Adventure
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​  For many writers, people watching is one of their favorite things to do and a main source of inspiration.  If you observe people around you, you will never run out of ideas.  Watch carefully the way people dress, walk, wear their hair, talk on their cellphones, lick ice cream cones, sip on a drink.  Inspiration is everywhere if we just pay attention and look around. 
  If you have never actually taken the time to people, watch you can learn how to do it by practicing.  Cut out pictures of faces from magazines or newspapers.  Look at the faces and describe on paper what you see, use details like a strong jaw, deep blue eyes, a cleft chin.  Look at every detail in their face and try to describe that face.  Next, imagine you know them and decide what sort of person you are looking at, what are they really like (in your imagination)?  Write it down.
  Now, taking your pictures and your notes, choose three of your characters and write a story.
  You may even invite your other writer friend to participate, each of you with your own pictures and your own notes.  Now, switch pictures and notes and try to identify the people but the descriptions that were created.  This can practice can be great fun and will help you learn how to people watch and gather inspiration from those around you.
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