Like visual artists who study at the feet–or at the canvas–of celebrated artists in museums with notebooks and pen/pencils, writers can do the same. Use your next (or your first?) museum or gallery visit as a writing prompt. Go and look at the work, find images that intrigue you, confuse you, or attract you. Take…
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Pacifying Pastimes
What brings me catharsis is stress-inducing. Video games bring me to seat’s edge, spewing nonsensical words that can only be considered cursing because my kids are there and if they’re not, then it’s lots of shits fucks and motherfuckers when I battle against one of the many bosses in Hyrule’s bestiary or struggle at Mario…
The Class That Almost Was, and Will Never Be
For some reason that I’m not clear about, I am relegated to teaching only writing classes. This means that I can only teach first-year writing sessions (two a semester! Or three, if I’m lucky) and creative writing courses. I suppose I could teach professional writing courses in editing and publishing, but I’m not jumping up…
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Iceland | Summer 2021 | Gullkistan | Part 2
A while ago, in the inaugural post of my irregular blog, I said I wanted to talk about reading and writing while at Gullkistan, an artist residency in Laugarvatn, Iceland. Gullkistan is the third residency I’ve attended, so I had a routine in mind for the time I’d spend in Iceland. I knew that I…