I say I want to “teach writing”. What does that mean and is it even possible? Although I’ve been told a couple of times that I can write well myself, more often than not, I don’t believe it. Many of my experiences and thoughts are just unavailable to me in words. How am I supposed [...]
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Liteature and Composition
Posted in family, writing on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reasons for Writing in Black and White
Posted in Detroit, connections, writing on June 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, I did it again. Worked on a draft for the last couple of days and lost it. I changed the presentation of the blog to make it easier to read and when I came back – the draft was gone. The thing is the thoughts that don’t gel right away, the ones that are [...]
Goals and Practice
Posted in excercise, writing on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reading over a couple of other blogs this morning, one of my most undesirable character traits surfaced. I began comparing my few and fledgling posts to what others have written and quickly decided mine were thin and lackluster. What I find most troubling about this is not so much the negative self-judgment, (although this becomes a problem when [...]
Forgotten epiphanies
Posted in domestic, writing on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An incredible moment and mundane. Should I publish it or keep it as a draft until tomorrow when I can reread and edit, make it flow?
My husband and I have just been out to a bar for a beer, listening to our jukebox picks (Foreigner, Stevie Ray Vaughn, ZZ Top) mingled with karaoke singing. One [...]
Natural practice
Posted in writing on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m setting a goal to write five times a week, even if it’s just a short paragraph.
My son recently gave a presentation at school, a project that combines work done in three different classes over about a two month period. Teams of two give results of their chemistry experiments, explaining methods and math in pretty [...]
Borders
Posted in connections, noise, writing on June 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I don’t know whether this is a personal blog or a place to work through “academic” ideas. The line between the two is so blurred. Maybe it doesn’t exist. Right now I’m trying to integrate a couple of concepts. The first concerns noise - the outlier, the mistake, the answer that doesn’t match the query. Mark Nunes talks about [...]
To Go Through
Posted in writing on June 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Through is an intersting word. I hadn’t thought much about it until I named this blog. I chose “Writing Through” because I’m interested in how writing gets an idea from one place to another or rather how I get from one idea to another through writing. Is writing like a passageway, a tunnel to travel through and come [...]
