This week’s teacher-student collaborative writing went to the beach.  I shared an image of a giant translucent bubble sitting on the edge of the shoreline.  The photo serves as launchpad for another creative writing journey designed by my third and fourth-grade students. I was hoping to engage these reluctant writers with a magical image that they could use as a blueprint for storytelling. My intention was for students to learn to see narrative structure not as a rigid set of rules, but as an expanding world of possibilities.