EXERCISE: Robin Reports?

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Original Posting Sept. 15, 2015

Over here

http://www.goerie.com/start-your-journey-as-an-artist-or-writer-today

talks about starting journalism in a treehouse. Really! And what fun it was.

The piece I wanted to point to, though, is this paragraph:

Starting today, our serial story for the first 10 weeks of the school year is "Robin Reports: The Nutty Neighborhood Block Party." Robyn and her intrepid reporters set out to cover the neighborhood block party so they can write about it for that week's edition of their newspaper, The Robyn Report. They encounter a series of wild and wacky mysteries that go on throughout the fun-filled and action-packed events.

That's your assignment. There's a neighborhood block party going on, and it's kind of wild! Something strange is happening, alright? So, crank up your word processor, whip out a pad and pencil, or whatever, and get that story! Feel free to write it in newspaper style, conventional short story, or even some other format.

But write! Now!