Dream Keepers Winter and Spring Schedule

Last Monday, the Dream Keepers met at King Library and made books about our dreams.

We'll be continuing to make those books throughout January at our other meetings. And we've got a whole bunch of other fun things planned for the rest of the winter and spring.

Here are the Dream Keepers locations and dates. Drop in and write with us!

Mitchell Street Library

903 West Historic Mitchell Street

4:30-6:00 PM

We meet in the library's Makerspace downstairs. Join us to create something with words, art, and more!

February 4, 18

March 4, 18

April 8, 22
May 21

Capitol Drive Library

3969 N 74th Street

4:00-5:30 PM

We meet in the children's area.

February 11, 25

March 11, 25

April 15, 29
May 20

Dr. Seuss Day

March 2, 2019

Central Library

11:00 AM- 1:00 PM

Join me in making tiny books and zines on any topic you are passionate about.

Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard

I'm delighted to be a part of Urban Wildlife: Poetry in Your Backyard. Together with teachers from the Milwaukee Public Museum, we present a workshop to help young people observe the wildlife in their yard, understand how it's related and write about it! Join us at one of our upcoming workshops! Visit the project website for more information: http://www.fieldworkmke.org/

February 9, East Library, 11 AM- 12 PM

February 27, Center Street, 4-5 PM

March 19, Capitol Drive, 4-5 PM

March 23, Mitchell Street, 1-2 PM

April 10, Washington Park, 4:30-5:30 PM

April 27, Zablocki, 2-3 PM

April 30, Mill Road, 6-7 PM

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Six-word Scary Stories

We've done six-word memoirs. Tonight the Dream Keepers wrote six-word scary stories. Read and enjoy! (Then write and submit your own in the comment field!) A vampire destroys the city with power. —Tramonta Garner (pictured above) One virus. One town. No survivors. —Jaimee Bogard-LaMar, 14 One girl. Many monsters. What's next? —Jaimee Bogard-LaMar, 14 Big zombie eats eyeballs. City blind. —Elisha Branch, 14 One house. One family. Both gone. —Elisha Branch, 14 Knock, knock. Who's there? Killer mysterious. —Derranesha, 12 Baby cries. No answer. What happens? —Derranesha, 12 Ring, ring. "Hello." Please help me. —April, 12 The spooky monster ran towards me ... —Sonya, 17 The worm crawls into the brain. —Sierra The slippery, slimy monster grabs two. —Quintoya Eskridge

Write Your Dreams

--> Write Your Dreams by Rochelle Melander Your dreams can be a rich source of stories, images, metaphors, and sensory details for your writing. Many famous novels began with the writer's dreams. Mary Shelley was staying with Lord Byron in Switzerland during a frightful cold spell. Byron suggested they write a ghost storied. After Shelley came up with the idea of a reanimated corpse, she had a spooky dream: that dream became the core of her famous novel Frankenstein . While traveling on a train, E.B. White dreamed of a small, adventurous mouse. Although he started writing the story almost immediately, it would be twenty years before he published, Stuart Little . When Stephen King snoozed on a long flight, he dreamed about a woman who kills her favorite writer, using his skin to bind a book. That dream gave him the idea for his bestselling book, Misery . You, too, can use your dreams...

Write Now: Headline Fun

--> I still remember the moment. My husband and I were in the checkout line at the grocery store. I was reading the headlines on the magazines when I saw this one, "Constipation Killed the Dinosaurs." Until then, I don't think I realized how amazingly creative tabloid writers need to be. Here's your assignment : Write a tabloid article, complete with headline, that could appear in your current work-in-progress. If this seems too challenging, grab a headline from an existing tabloid and write your article based on that.

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