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When We are Writers

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When We are Writers

There’s a thing I want to say. I heard it coming up when I was sitting in Starbucks yesterday. Watching the sun and the people in the sun and thinking this was as good a place as any for a writer and a teacher to be composing his thoughts.

Essential Silence

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Essential Silence

I attended a funeral last month. I wanted to speak, but I couldn’t — not for the lump in my throat or the tears in my eyes or any of the affective, funereal reasons. No, I didn’t speak only because of logistics. When the officiant asked for volunteers to

Between Words and Pictures Emerges the Shape of Ideas

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Between Words and Pictures Emerges the Shape of Ideas

I want to share a quick few reflections on the particular way in which I see comics as a powerful way to express and organize our thinking. Defining this collection of practices we refer to as comics (or if you’re at the bookstore “graphic novels”) is a bit nebulous

Digital Writing

Traces

The fact remains that to write is to trace, and to trace is within the reach of any hand — Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts [https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Arachnean_and_Other_Texts.html?id=G7Y4mwEACAAJ&hl=en] 1 Digital writing: Is it really different from

Dance : Work : Learn : Teach : Write

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Dance : Work : Learn : Teach : Write

Prelude In a former life I was a dancer. A former life, or a previous era: BGS (Before Grad School). This is how I used to think of the countless hours I spent studying ballet in New York and Seattle, and performing with a university-affiliated company as an undergraduate in

Author, Audience, and Parts of Speech

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Author, Audience, and Parts of Speech

For much of October I have been mentally wringing my hands over exactly how I want to contribute to Digital Writing Month, especially as a featured contributor. I gladly accepted the invitation to be a part and was flattered to be included among a fascinating cross section of participating contributors.

Your Voice in Mine

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Your Voice in Mine

How can I hear my own voice unless it bounces off of yours? I have had that single line in my mind for years. It isn’t particularly poetic, and I don’t completely agree with what it implies, but I’ve tried relentlessly to write the poem I hear

On the Horrors and Pleasures of Counting Words

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On the Horrors and Pleasures of Counting Words

Good writing is not reducible to numbers; the word count for the expression of an idea can’t always (or even usually) be determined in advance. Ideas fit all kinds of containers, some small, some large, some book-shaped, some made of 1s and 0s. When I aim for a specific

Blogging is a Choral Act

Digital Writing

Blogging is a Choral Act

I was going to start by saying that digital writing was, for me, a Pandora’s Box. But that would not be fair, or true. The jar Pandora opened held the evils of the world; her act unleashed them into the commons forever. My story is not such a cautionary

Creative Beasts with Crayons

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Creative Beasts with Crayons

Digital writing is emergent writing. It mutinies at the imposition of form, the edicts of the grammars of old. It rails to change the rules. It raises the flag of anarchy. The council of digital writing is one of spontaneity, rambunctiousness, the aloof horror of invention, the frenetic joy of

Digital Writing, Paywalls, and Worth

Digital Writing

Digital Writing, Paywalls, and Worth

This piece was contributed as part ofHybrid Pedagogy‘sDigital Writing Month [http://www.digiwrimo.com/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m tired. Scratch that: I’m exhausted. I’ve been writing for my life, like my life depended on it, like somehow if I could find the right words, my life would finally