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. The first post is here. – Characterization: what makes the character different from everyone...
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 posts on rethinking critique in the workshop. The first post is here. The second is here. The fourth is here. * * * In part 2, I started to discuss how the workshop has some interesting similarities to the minority experience of real...