The Dash A dash (—) is a piece of punctuation that you don’t hear about as much as others. It is a line that is used as a break in the writing for one reason or another. The reason that it is not often taught in schools is that it is usually for informal writing,…
Muse on Monday – June 21, 2021, Featuring “The Mistake That Didn’t Change my Life”
Welcome to the longest day of the year, if you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, or the shortest day of the year if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the summer solstice, the first official day of summer! What a great day to submit a story to the Summer 2021 Young Writers Contest. Get your…
Muse on Monday – June 14, 2021, Featuring “Escape from the Treehuggers”
I hope you all had a great weekend and are ready to start a new week! If you are (or know of) an aspiring writer between 8 and 18, check out our Summer 2021 Young Writers Contest. To find out more about it, go to the Writing Contest tab at the top or click on…
Muse on Monday – June 7, 2021, Featuring “The Hinge”
It is June and summer is in the air. As part of that, the Green-Walled Treehouse has launched the Summer 2021 Young Writers Contest. To find out more about it, go to the Writing Contest tab at the top or click on the picture below. The challenge of Muse on Monday is to write a…
Writing Corner: Story Tense
Story Tense The tense of the story means when it is happening, either in the past or the present. This gets into grammar a bit more than other topics, but I am going to try to keep it very simple. How Many Tenses are There? When we think of verb tenses, usually we think of…
The Good Octopus
The Good Octopus If you are like me, then the first thing your grandfather told you when you were young was to stay away from octopuses. It’s not that octopuses are bad; they are just tricksy. It’s all their arms. Most people have two arms, so you can see what they are doing, but octopuses…
The Summer 2021 Young Writers Contest is Open!
Announcing the Summer 2021 Young Writers Contest! Today is June 1 and that means it’s basically summer now. And, as of today, the Green-Walled Treehouse’s Summer 2021 Young Writers Contest is open! All the details are in the Writing Contest tab at the top of the page or you can click here. However, here is…
Muse on Monday – May 31, 2021, Featuring “Homework Stones”
Welcome to a bran new week. Last week was Victoria Day in Canada, and today is Memorial Day in the US. This is the time of year for holidays. If you’re in the US, hopefully you have the day off and have time to write a story! The challenge of Muse on Monday is to…
Writing Corner: Point of View
Point of View Point of view in fiction means what parts of the story the reader can see. Think of the reader as a ghost. The characters don’t know the reader is there (usually) and the reader can move anywhere in the story very quickly. However, it is up to the writer, where they go….
First Flight
First Flight I look out the window, down at an engine so big I could stand up inside it. Of course it has to be big to move something as big as a building: a building that will be flying miles up in the air in a few minutes. I tighten my seat belt. This…
The Green-Walled Treehouse 