When I hand back papers, I feel like a juror returning a guilty verdict.
Students of all ages in my classes often equate good writing with things they agree with or understand.
I teach for the same reasons I write: to connect with an audience.
I didn't intentionally start out by saying "I'm going to write about a character who is ‘immoderately adrift.’
The gamble was whether this…combustion would happen, of all the chapters together.
