Tomorrow is my day to post in the Blog Hop, even though right now I’m feeling like a broken link in a chain letter. On Feb. 12, Jennifer Bullis’s blog linked me to Marilyn Cavicchia‘s blog — you can go directly there to see what her next big thing is. And Happy Valentine’s Day. […]
On Wednesday my Creative Nonfiction students have to turn in a rough draft of their Big, True Story. I went into today’s class determined to make a last-ditch effort to get them to think about narrative arc. Not that it’s the only way, or the best way, but I like to look at stories through […]
“True artists are possessed… they are messianic egomaniacs. They believe that what they do is unspeakably important; it is only that conviction that makes the writer himself important…So Beethoven does draft after draft of his works, scrutinizing, altering, improvising them long after anyone commonly sane would have stopped, delighted… Only the absolute conviction that with […]
I had a really interesting experience the other day in class, and I’ve been debating with myself as to whether or not to share it here. Given our current national debate about guns and violence, it feels like one of those hot topics that I tend to veer away from. You know how it is, […]