How clichéd can a writing workshop get, right? Picture it. Half a dozen writers of various skill levels around a dining room table shuffling drafts back and…
Category: Writing about Writing
Lessons, tips, and reflections on being writers; especially discussing the process of composing words, different genres and their related techniques, and meaningful glimpses into their growth as authors, tutors, and readers.
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Alif… Baa… Taa…
Now that I’ve been studying Classical Arabic nearly every day for the past month, I thought it would be a good time to step back and reflect…
“The best writing teachers are writers themselves,” argues Cindy O’Donnell-Allen in the Atlantic. As she looks at the widely studied curriculum overhaul at New Dorp High School…
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Ban Book Banning!
The first week of October is one of my favorites. I love the coming of fall, Halloween, and pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks. I also love the…
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Reading, Writing, FUN!
Ever since I was little I have loved to read. Books were my television. I would imagine myself as one of the characters in the book, or…
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The Art of Revision
I am a writer. I write — and up until last year, I absolutely, under no circumstances, did not re-write.
For a while now I have been asking myself how I can make a career out of my writing. My immediate answer would be to write novels…
Unfairness, thy name is unpaid internship. During one conversation appointment this week, I fell into something of a difficulty: having to explain why I had done so…
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Blogging on Blogging
Blogs, blogging and bloggers all have a certain stigma attached to them. From “bored housewives” to “creepy internet stalkers”, the blog world usually gets a bad reputation.…
Most of us have heard by now of the many books that Americans have tried to get banned—and have even succeeded in banning—over the years. Some of…