February 25, 2017
How do you use technology in Creative Writing workshops?
During my AWP panel on workshopping, someone in the audience mentioned that a friend ran his workshops by having students submit all their critiques online beforehand, so that the writer could look them over and then use classtime to ask questions. I like this idea, though I also like how readings and opinions and questions change through conversation. In ...
February 17, 2017
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My entire life I have been trying to get my head around how loving someone does not necessarily mean empathizing with him. How loving often means silencing not yourself but a part of your beloved.
One thought this leads to is that love is cultural. How we love, and who we find loveable in which ways, is cultural. And our culture is conflict. Perhaps this is because of our American myth of the individual.
The ...
February 07, 2017
After 7 or 8 AWPs, I thought it might be fun to see if I've learned anything that could help someone else. I'm one of those strange people who like AWP a lot, and the reason is simple: I see people at AWP whom I often don't get to see the rest of the year. I've made AWP more enjoyable for myself over the years by, I guess, being economical about this: maximizing the time I get to see people and minimizing the things that ...
January 27, 2017
This is a continuation of the first part of this series, found here.
If you're interested in contributing a guest post, you can reach me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.].
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11. These are not only craft considerations. They are not only aesthetic. To wonder about what forces have shaped what we think of as a literary realist plot is to wonder about what forces have shaped what we think of as reality, and to wonder ...
