I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. This is the final post. The first post is here. - Structure: the organization of meaning A word...
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.]. - 11. These are not only craft considerations. They are not only aesthetic. To wonder about...
This is the third in a series of posts on teaching creative writing and the election. I’ve been thinking about how the classroom feels like the most productive space right now and wondering whether it’s because the classroom, the workshop, is a place where discourse...
I've written here before about culture and craft, but have been thinking about the ways genres are classified. I just took my comprehensive exams, and a large part of the fiction exam revolved around genres. Some thoughts below, in part one of something new. As...
This is a continuation of my posts on teaching revision, specifically this one and this one. If you’d like to contribute a guest post or response, please contact me at m [dot] salesses [at gmail etc.]. Last week I wrote about revision versus drafting and the idea of...
This is the third in a series of guest posts on teaching creative writing. Ingrid Rojas Contreras emailed me in response to the "'Pure Craft' Is a Lie" series, and I asked if she would contribute a guest post. Here she writes about a difficulty I find myself always in...