Friday, July 24, 2020

Seek and Ye Shall Find (Magic)

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Today is the final day of the intensive six-week Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial I've been teaching for the graduate programs in chil...
Thursday, July 16, 2020

When Your Students Are Smarter Than You Are

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When I first became a university philosophy professor, almost thirty years ago, by the end of the first week of my first graduate sem...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The Post-Book-Revision Blues

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For the past few weeks I've been crazed with revising my work-in-progress verse novel from extensive comments given to me on the earlier...
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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Peaceful, Pleasant, Productive Plodding

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I have a long to-do list every day right now. Maybe you do, too. I'm teaching an intensive Advanced Creative Writing Tutorial for the ...
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Friday, June 19, 2020

The Ultimate Author Betrayal: Falling in Love with a NEW PEN

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For as long as I can remember, I have loved Pilot Razor Point Fine-Tipped Black Marker Pens. I have written almost all of my sixty book...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Trying to Make (Teaching and Writing) Magic Happen from Afar

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Today, if COVID-19 hadn't happened, I would have been in Roanoke, Virginia, getting ready to start teaching the Advanced Creative Writin...
Friday, June 12, 2020

The Exhilaration of Brilliant Critique

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Ever since the COVID-19 lockdown began, I've been working on a verse novel (currently titled The Lost Language) about two sixth-grade b...