Enjoying Justin Taylor's notes about the intro creative writing class he's teaching at Rutgers--sometimes you get a group of students who are magical. Although my husband, who lives for teaching and teaches everything from poetry to tech writing, has pronounced that if you treat all your students like honors students, they'll act like honors students.
With that in mind, I'm trying to cook up a VIP guest lecture/reading series for my undergraduate advanced fiction writers--I'm going to try to get some of my flashy friends to write flash-length notes/essays on writing very short fiction that I can post on Blackboard (the evil gated community of social networks), along with links to two or three of their stories.
Anyone want to help out? Anyone have a better idea?
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Even though thinking about it makes me a little tired, I wish I was in college now. Seems like it's much more enjoyable and engaging.
are you passively/aggressively volunteering to write one for me?
I'd be happy to do something for you.
Yesss! thanks roxane.
I'm also happy to help.
brilliant, ethel. this thing is shaping up nicely.
I sent a note through Zoe just let me know what you need.
that sounds like a pretty cool idea!
thanks ryan. I was thinking about how much i hate the bloviation of most writing about writing, and how it would be nice just to get an idea at a time, with lots of white space.
Do you think you want to pitch in?
yeah, reading books on writing always drove me nuts in classes. this will be way better. and i would be more than happy to take part if you would like, shoot me a message on facebook with the particulars and i'll take my best shot!
Actually, I really was thinking about how I used to read my Raymond Carver photocopies and think "If I write like this, no one will roll their eyes at me anymore!"
But yes, I'd love to help.
let me know if you have additional exploitation needs ... sounds very cool!
would you be interested in doing some hint fiction? if so i'd be more than happy to write something up :-)
wv: cordembl
ryan, erin, lauren, robert. this is awesome. I want it all. I'll send details, insofar as I've dreamed them up, by email.
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