Intro: So I did a freewrite with my students, because honestly, it's one of the few times I write creatively these days, and because the topic was "Fairy Tales," I decided to write alongside them. It's good exercise, and I'm trying to do a creative writing assignment for one of my summer classes in a [...]
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Writing: Muse
Intro: I have not done many fiction writing exercises lately, but at the suggestion of a professor, I can use this time to get back to my love for it, and what better time than doing freewrites with my students? This is kind of a spinoff to my previous thought about "Writing as a Person." [...]
Writing Wednesdays #6: Prompt Exchange
Of course it'd be me who ends up with a romance prompt. Leave it to my writing voldies to drag a kissing story out of me. And then make me end it in a TRAGEDY. I'm getting way too ahead of myself, though. This week, I had the writing voldies think up different prompts, which [...]
Writing Wednesdays #5: Continued Narration
This might possibly be one of the latest posts I've ever done, but it wouldn't be a Writing Wednesday if I had it scheduled for the next day. Gods, no. All the same, I did just get back and I wanted to enumerate the lovely things I did with my little voldies. Today we decided [...]
Writing Wednesdays #2: Similes and Metaphors
Today my writing voldies explored the nuances of similes and metaphors (which, by the way, can be explained simply by this most righteous music video). To further induct them into figurative language, I gave them examples from the mistress of similes and metaphors: my girl Taylor Swift. You laugh at this. They laughed at this. [...]
Story and Somnomancy 