Professional writers and educators share their techniques for teaching imaginative writing and review books on writing pedagogy and related subjects. Please visit the Teachers & Writers website to learn more and to view this month's current lesson plan and featured writer. Jenny Robinson has been teaching creative writing in New York City public schools through Teachers & Writers Collaborative for three years and has also taught creative writing in the schools in Seattle, Washington. She studied fiction at Sarah Lawrence College. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to work on her own writing. Following is the second in a series of fiction writing lessons Jenny Robinson taught to a group of elementary school students in Brooklyn, New York. In the first lesson (which was a Halloween lesson that we will save for the appropriate season), she and her class talked about what fiction is--made-up stories--and talked about similes and metaphors, and wrote in the voices of make-believe characters. ...