Our fourth year of the Story Catcher Writing Workshop and Festival has just concluded, focusing on the theme of "WRITING HOME: Capturing Your Place in the World." We tried some new things this year: a weekend format, a beefed-up advanced "pre-session" workshop, and a greater emphasis on the RETREAT element of the workshop. Initial reports are … Continue reading WRITING HOME: a recap of the 2015 Storycatcher Workshop
10 Tips for Bloggers: Finding Topics and Motivation
Many students who start blogging as an assignment in one of my courses tell me they want to keep blogging after the course ends--only they aren't sure how to find topics to write about or motivation to post regularly once they're no longer blogging under deadline as part of a graded assignment. Here are 10 … Continue reading 10 Tips for Bloggers: Finding Topics and Motivation
What are you writing?
by B. Lee Miller I teach writing and the teaching of writing. And one of the things I often talk about with students who will one day teaching writing is the importance of their having their own writing life if they are to ask, or invite, students to do the same. What sense does … Continue reading What are you writing?
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