We love surprises, almost as much as we love being right. As I see it, if I couldn’t predict the ending on House or Law and Order, the show wasn’t set up right. I like a puzzle, but I like one I have a chance of solving. I’ve got to say Read more…
My kids in Creative Writing this semester, they’re pretty hilarious, but they lack the polish of a professional stand-up. So rather than a mystery or romance story, we’re working on stand-up routines this week. We started with Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop Tart joke process, mostly because I was searching YouTube for Read more…
Teaching Creative Writing was dangled in front of me once before: 8 years ago, in fact. I immediately started formulating a vision, setting goals, developing plans …that I never got to use. This year, a spring Creative Writing class was proffered once more, though I dared not get my hopes up Read more…
Writers’ Workshop has gone through several incarnations this semester of Creative Writing alone. We started off in a circle with hard copies and pens in hand. As the stories got longer, though, the screams of the murdered trees haunted my dreams. I also didn’t relish the idea of having to Read more…
You keep getting the same problems over and over again. You wish you had a stamp made so you wouldn’t have to keep writing the same thing over and over. Maybe you’ve developed a highlighter color code for types of errors. Maybe you have a document of all the comments Read more…
You’ve probably heard of FANBOYS when talking about coordinating conjunctions, but where is the acronym for subordinating conjunctions? Of course there are, like, zillions of subordinating conjunctions, so one must pick and choose. I chose my 10 favorites, based on what my I’ve seen my Creative Writing class use or Read more…