From the monthly archives:

April 2010

A Pocketful of Prosody

April 30, 2010

I love poetry, and as a high school English teacher, I would like my students to enjoy it as much as I do. While this may be an inherently futile endeavor, I continue to fight the good fight anyway and make pitches for my favorite poems and poets. If I’m lucky, the students who’ve learned [...]

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Cathartic Writing: Where to Turn for Advice on How to Turn Your Personal Demons into Story Gold

April 28, 2010

Cover of On Writing: A Memoir of the CraftWriting comes from a very personal place and many writers agree that the process is an isolated one. Tapping into our own experiences when composing stories can, at times, take us to some pretty dark places. Cathartic writing is a way to unleash pent up emotions while [...]

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Journals: Tool or Trap

April 26, 2010

Someone lent me a copy of Robert’s Rules of Writing. Rule #1 was Burn Your Journal. That was very hard to swallow because I’ve been keeping a journal off and on since high school. I stopped for a few years after I caught my husband snooping in it. Thankfully he realized how boring my inner [...]

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Spoiler Alert: My thoughts on spoilers inside!

April 23, 2010

Image by dstrelau via Flickr I don’t think spoilers are that big of a deal.  I just ruined the end of this post for you, but I hope you keep reading. I understand why they bother a lot of people – they want to be surprised by the twists and turns of a movie when [...]

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Tomato Testimonial

April 21, 2010

Like most of the other bloggers on this site I’ve been having trouble meeting my writing goals lately (and non-writing goals for that matter).  In fact it’s been hard to even get started lately.  I won’t bore you with the specifics of the excuses.  Like most excuses they feel valid at the time but criminally [...]

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