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Teaching

Workshops

July 26, 2010

Image via Wikipedia I recently attended a weeklong workshop at the venerable University of Iowa.  This was my second year, and it seemed this time around more was gained from the experience.  It was an advanced short story workshop.  Here are a few of the insights I took away. Keep your promises.  The craft books [...]

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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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Rules for Writing

March 17, 2010

Cover of BECOMING A WRITER I recently read an article in the Guardian titled “Ten Rules for Writing Fiction”. It was primarily a platform to promote Elmore Leonard’s new book 10 Rules of Writing. Of course, six of the ten Leonard rules I’ve been guilty of breaking. But the article went to garner ten rules [...]

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“Only the educated are free.” —Epictetus

February 19, 2010

Image via Wikipedia These are tough times in the world of education. It seems hard to believe that just a few short years ago a person with solid teaching credentials could get a job practically anywhere. (Or at least this was true in the part of the country where I live.) How quickly things have [...]

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I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar (Archetypal Women “Fighting the Man”)

January 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia They are the women we admire: strong, intelligent, determined, resourceful. To their opponents, they are gadflies. To the oppressed, they are cherished protectors. They stand alone against the world—and often pay the price for it. These feminine crusaders spend their days fighting the powers that be in order to bring about change, [...]

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