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52 Songs, 52 Stories
Someday, if I’m feeling ambitious and ready for a challenge, I’m going to do a version of this amazing project: 52 Songs, 52 Stories. The blogger chose a song each week, posted a video for that song and wrote a very short story inspired by the song. He was inspired by several projects, including A …
Blogiversary
Like Anjali, I recently passed my 500 post milestone for this blog, which I first posted in on July 12, 2007. That also means that my blog will turn five this summer, the same year that my children and my marriage turn ten. That first month, I had stopped posting in an old personal blog …
Writing Goals: Jumpstart Edition
One technique that works for me in goal-setting is making sure I have some concrete tasks to check off as I make progress, in addition to larger conceptual themes. In keeping with my writing jumpstart program, here are my specific writing goals for 2012: prioritize regular writing time join and regularly participate in and attend …
Jumpstarting My Writing
As important as writing is to me, and as central as it is to my identity and conception of myself, when something has to drop from my daily juggling act, too often, it’s writing. So for 2012, I’m determined to jumpstart my trajectory as a writer and poet. This is a broader goal, not a …
Goals and Resolutions
Two years ago, inspired by The Simple Dollar, I made a series of posts dedicated to goals of mine in the areas of blogging, writing, and personal and family life. At the end of that year, I joined 43 Things and set myself some more, from painting my staircase to writing a new poem each …
Keeping a Teaching Journal
On Twitter recently, a link to an article on keeping a teaching journal popped up, and I was instantly intrigued. Keeping a work journal has been on my mind since I read about it while writing about my new gratitude journal habit, but I didn’t realize there was such a wealth of resources and articles …
Moment
Prompt: Moment. Pick one moment during which you felt most alive this year. Describe it in vivid detail (texture, smells, voices, noises, colors). They are boisterous, they are rowdy, they can be unruly, and I love them so. They are a group of students who clamor for understanding, who fumble wholeheartedly with what they do …
Swinging
What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? Hmmmm. My instant response is “have a life,” followed by “juggle everything in that life and hope desperately that nothing crashes,” but I think that is probably more indicative of my current state of mind than anything …
Words of Wisdom
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in …
Blah Blah Writing Blah
I borrowed this post title from the wonderful Dr. Crazy, who’s on sabbatical and blogging her torturous and funny path through her current book project in posts tagged that way. Plus she likes one of my new favorite bands, Florence and the Machine! Her posts on writing have made me laugh, sympathize, and …
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