The Writing Process: How I Save Spit
If you’re interested, here’s a glimpse of me editing myself. *Ruthless* http://aopinionatedman.com/2014/02/24/the-writing-process-part-3-how-i-save-spit/ Love, HW
Tag: Writing Technique
The Writing Process, Part 5: Keep Painting
In extension of The Writing Process: Sensory Details, Part 4, I share a handful of poems a few private students produced years back. The wording fell into place once the ideas came to life in the brainstorm of senses (explained in Part 4). Tip of the day: quotes wake up poems with the element of… Read More The Writing Process, Part 5: Keep Painting
The Writing Process, Part 4: Sensory Details
I was about 23, teaching 5th grade in a diverse Philadelphia public school. Hailstones and Halibut Bones, the beautiful book of color poetry that inspires kids out of mediocre writing, sparked lovely poems in my own students. (It is the most recent edition that offers vibrant pictures). The contagious delight the kids took playing with… Read More The Writing Process, Part 4: Sensory Details
The Writing Process, Part 3: To Be or Not To Be
I’m not asking Hamlet’s existential question. To be or not to be? To live or kill myself? It’s literal grammar. To eat –> She eats. To dance –> She dances. To be –> She be. She is. The verb TO BE conjugates, or breaks down, into the form is when referring to a singular third… Read More The Writing Process, Part 3: To Be or Not To Be
The Writing Process, Part 2: Save Spit
I’ve taught writing in both public schools and private settings. Years after their last lesson with me, I asked two very bright sisters (with diametric learning styles) what they remembered from their long season with me. Both answered, “Save spit.” Turned out, the pithy injunction had velcroed itself on their brain and conducted the papers… Read More The Writing Process, Part 2: Save Spit
A Holistic Journey 