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I was brought to tears by an essay by the writer Natalie Diaz. She writes of the dilemma that most of us who write and speak face: What do we mean when we say or write _______? However, those of us who are monolingual don’t have much to compare our language limitation(s) to. Diaz is…
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Week 8 of an 11 week quarter. Harried students, all over the place writing, missed deadlines, budget deadlines… Me: “We have to end our session now, we’ve actually gone over time….” Student: “I have one more question about my lit review…grammar…APA….” Me: “We really have to stop now, I have another student waiting…..” Student:…
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I know that roof is misspelled, but I’m taking creative license with that one, just to kid around. No snow here and the music is great on my favorite jazz station. Clancy is tracking Santa’s route, which is way cute! Perhaps there’s a poem or two coming on….my Christmas present!
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Happy Winter Holiday Slow-down | Joyce Young | Blog Post | Red Room.
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This is priceless. The blog of Writers Write, a program offering writing courses in South Africa, has posted a draft of one of Emily Dickinson’s poems with feedback from her (fictional) instructor. Here is the link: http://writerswrite.co.za/what-if-emily-dickinson-attended-a-writing-workshopProgram I wonder whether Emily would have returned to the workshop, kept on with her writing and continued to…
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Originally posted on 5 Writers 5 Novels 5 Months: Joe’s Post # 51 After the post about writing sex scenes, I realized that I may have another problem. A bigger one. (Stop giggling!) Maybe the challenge with writing sizzling sex scenes is connecting to the actual EMOTION of the scene. Oh, boy. Emotions… that’s ah,…
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I admit that I’ve been away from this Blog. However, I have not been out of the country, away at my country home (don’t have one), or unavailable. No. It is the end of the summer quarter, and my head has been filled with other people’s writing and writing problems. Not a bad thing, but…
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Pandemonium Press is Sponsoring a reading at Casa Latina on August 6th to support peace on the 68th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima – Nagasaki. Here’s a link to the flyer: Hiroshima-Nagasaki2013 Please come out and support us!
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Great post on meditation and how it can influence the writer and her/his writing from Lauren Sapala’s writecity blog….
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I love this post by Joe Cummings on 5 Writers 5 Novels 5 Months about creating obstacles for your characters. Make them suffer. And I can’t wait to read the next post by one of these writers. They get right to the point and they do it with clear, precise and humor-filled…
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