English 1B, Wednesday 5/06/20

6-6:10pm.  Narrate your day… tell us a story from today… 6:10-6:30pm:  Your personal essay/story… share some paragraphs with us? 6:30-6:50pm:  What are some of the more exiting dimensions to writing about yourself?  Some of the challenges? 6:50-7pm:  Without spoiling anything in your story, what do you want readers to leave with? That is, what do…

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English 1B, Monday 5/04/20

6-6:10pm.  Narrate your day… tell us a story from today… 6:10-6:30pm:  Your personal essay/story… share some paragraphs with us? 6:30-6:50pm:  What are some of the more exiting dimensions to writing about yourself?  Some of the challenges? 6:50-7pm:  Without spoiling anything in your story, what do you want readers to leave with? That is, what do…

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Some people will

want you to feel bad and guilty and less for doing something that brings you joy. Their desire to do so annunciates your joy. You just have to see so… when you do, you meet higher atmosphere and collective of character.

Note to self, that I NEED share with YOU…..

Stop thinking about WHAT to write.  Just write… if anything, or nothing, where you are and what you’re doing… ME, now… in home office, ‘cause I have to be at home, office-ing, and can’t work at a café or co-work space.. Write where you are, what you’re thinking in that spot, what you think of…

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English 1B, Wednesday 4/29/20

6-6:10pm.  How are you?  What have you been writing? 6:10-6:20pm:  How’d the papers go?  What are some of the strengths?  Points for improvement, later? 6:20-6:45pm:  Starting to write our stories.  What do you have so far? 6:45-7pm:  The next author….  Samantha Irby.  What did you find?  How do think she’ll be similar, different, from our…

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