Create Your Writing Environment Get to know yourself and how you do your best work. Where do you most like to write? Do you like to use the computer or a pen and paper? Do you "write" in your mind while taking a shower, or do you like to talk through your ideas with a friend first? Try a new place for writing to jump-start your creativity.

Welcome to the Writers' Corner! This is the place for you if you're a teen writer, an adult writer, or a wannabe writer! You can find out everything you need to know about writing for devozine. You can also find our upcoming themes and expanded theme questions (these questions will help you to know what we're looking for), view our writing guidelines, get a tip or two on good writing, or get a recommendation for a good book on writing. You can even send us your meditation from this page. Here are some good, classic books about writing. Feed your writer's soul and read some of them! If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence, and Spirit, Brenda Ueland On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser The Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr., et al Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Natalie Goldberg Write Right! A Desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar, and Style, Jan Venolia Write Away: A Journal Writing Tool Kit, Eldonna Bouton The Art and Craft of Poetry, Michael J. Bugeja. 2003 Writer’s Market, Katie Struckel Brogan and Robert Brewer, editors Do you have a book on writing you'd like to recommend? Write to devozine@upperroom.org and tell us about it!

"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. "

--Christina Baldwin

Tips for Adults Writing for Teens -- If you are an adult writer who has never tried writing for youth before, here are a few tips from the devozine staff.

Writers' Workshop -- Download a PDF of this writers' workshop model that you can use in any number of settings with youth and/or adults who are interested in writing for youth.