Today I complete 40 days of writing over the course of two calendar months, and I’ve managed to maintain discipline and consistency throughout this period of time, despite a couple of brief interruptions to my schedule of writing 500-800 words a day, five days a week. I reflected on the 10th day that the real…
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Teaching Writing
How did you learn to read and write? Can you tell a story about your literacy? This is a question I ask my students at the start of each year. Every year, I am struck by the diversity of student responses, as well as the varying levels of enthusiasm for both skills. My own memories…
Writing for 10 days
One idea I’ve been working around as I complete 10 days of writing 700+ words a day of [roughly edited but intended to be legible] ideas is that writing isn’t actually that hard, but generating novel, interesting or worthwhile ideas is a big part of the challenge. Journaling for myself is focused more on debriefing…