6/2/22

When stress grips you, let go… write the feeling of letting go.  The definition and picture of that detachment.  Stress is not a being, it’s imagined, conceptual.  You and your strength, your ability to write your way through and out of it IS real.

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Writing your way through challenging scenes is what defines your written dimension. Hope you intersect with such times, REPEATEDLY.

4/29/22 notes…

Writing should always be free, and only as concerned with formality as the writer wishes.  This room is teaching me to write again, the wall bricks, the new desk nearly assembled, this laptop, the chair, window to my right, fence and tree. My relationship with writing’s changing, as me the character in his books changes. …

4/15/22

Writing in a new location is like exchanging minds with yourself, I’ve found.  It’s a restart, a renewal… starting a new story yes but becoming a new diarist, new writer, new thinker and human.  This brick wall to my left, the view out this first floor window right in front of me.  One tree in…

3/18/22

Everything around you is a lesson and statement.  It’s material.  There’s no excuse to not write, if you want to.  The plainness is poetry, and the otherwise dismissible has definite dimension. Stop looking when you don’t need to.  Not that you’ve found something, but your ideas and topics and written directions have already found YOU.

ENGLISH 1A – CLASS PROMPTS FOR THURSDAY 10/14/21

(5-5:10pm:) How was your day?  Anything in in the day itself that taught you something about you, how you see your life and day and what occurs in both? (5:10-5:35pm:) What are some of your initial observations on David Sedaris?  Feel free to expand from what you texted me, if you did.  Is he happy,…

ENGLISH 1A PROMPT

Write something.  Anything, below.  A story, a note to yourself, a thought… think of engaging readers, keeping them on the page.  Not selling, but genuine and heartfelt, TRUE, engagement.  This could take any form… enjoy your writing, enjoy the fact that you will attract readers, new friends, build community.  Not “followers”, but REAL interactions and…

ENGLISH 1A PROMPT

We all have things we want, and ways we wish out story to progress.  What do you do when things don’t occur they way you envisioned?  We’re human, so frustration, sadness, even anger is natural.  But you have to move past it eventually if you’re to reach what you seek.   How do you move…