Writing Until We Get It Right We keep going. We write and re-write. We tinker and toil until the thing reaches a level of “right” we can deal with. Then, we send it out there.
Writing Writing Like Jazz: Revising with the Energy Meter Like a good jazz player, we allow the writing to move us in the direction it needs to go. We focus only on this sentence, this clause, this phrase.
Writing Think Like Vader: Writing Inside Characters The author needs to get into the heads of her characters and take on that sense of self-righteousness. The author needs to pursue the character’s trust in her own goodness.
Poetry On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 2021) Ahead of me, not quite at the top, I could see in the starlight the dark neck and the black crew cut of a man in a charcoal suit. I called out to him, and he turned around and saw me.
Writing The Pen: (Often) Mightier than Microsoft Word Writing with pen and paper offers a different writing experience. When we write by hand, we do not have the allure of the Internet at our disposal.
Letters to Gus To My Third Grader on World Kindness Day While we may not always understand why some people are unkind to others or why some people do bad things, what we can understand is that kindness is always the right answer.
Writing Art Requires Time (The Muse Will Meet Us There) If it’s important, then we pencil it in. We put it in the calendar. We block off a few hours for curiosity to take us where it needs to go.
Poetry Gravity's Rain 331 or The White Continuum Erasing. Black and White. Pynchon made poignant or problematic or paranoid or just plain wrong.
Week Links: 17 Oct 2020 Signal vs. Noise. Poetry: "preter-so(u)lar ⍟." Shutdown Rituals. Required Reading about Laura Southern and being a teacher. It's Week Links!
Poetry preter-so(u)lar ⍟ the exegesis of memes. the application of electromagnetic waves. extraterrestrial. the voyage beyond.
Week Links: 10 Oct 2020 The thin places. A poem. A teacher hack. Plenty of required reading about stuff like poetry, Kamala Harris, and #ThisIsWhy2020. Week Links is here!
Poetry Dulcinea This dream will be forgotten, save that moment where the don turns to me, smiling through sun-dried crust of old age and smacking salt pork between his gums.
Week Links: 03 Oct 2020 The President is now a pandemic statistic. An un-presidential debate. The death of academic rigor. Plus, as always, some #RequiredReading. Week Links is here!
Letters to Gus The Bully’s Pulpit: A Letter to Gus After an Un-Presidential Debate As we sat and watched, you turned to me and Mom and said, “Donald Trump is annoying. He won’t let Joe Biden speak.”
