Our Stories: a fiction workshop for young authors
written by Marion Dane Bauer
Clarion, 1996
ISBN 0-395-81598-3

The only way to learn to write is by writing. But writing can be a lonely occupation and one for which meaningful feedback is in short supply. So you write and write and write. How do you know when your stories are working? How do you learn what you can do to make them better?

In this follow-up to her award-winning What's Your Story? and A Writer's Story, Marion Dane Bauer presents a selection of short fiction pieces written by students in grades four through twelve across the country. The pieces exemplify the various aspects of good fiction writing laid out in What's Your Story? and Bauer offers comments on each, detailing what is working well and making suggestions for improvements. The result is a kind of writer's workshop in book form, enjoyable for the range and variety of the selections and also useful as a teaching tool in whole-language classes. So . . . write on!