Because I wanted to be cool like Johndan: To make your own, go to Websites as Graphs.
Author: Traci Gardner
Snapshots Column Submitted
I sent off a short piece for the Snapshots column of English Journal today. I dunno if it will get in, but I tried. Since I mention college and it’s from many years ago, I’m not sure how much of…
Brainstorming about Teaching
Need to stop work on the memoir lesson plan that I’ve been restructuring to work on the Snapshots article I set as a goal for this week. The memoir lesson is for an interesting project that ReadWriteThink is part of…
Creating another blog identity
Finally created a second site for a different blog that I want to write. There’s some thinking I need to do about my messy existence that just doesn’t go in this blog, so I created a second one elsewhere, and…
August 9 Writing Projects
I turned in the draft for Chapter 3 on Monday afternoon. It ended up at 45 double-spaced pages, and near the end, I’m sure that I started repeating things. I know that the last list of criteria used the verb…
Magic blog publications?
Is it wrong that I keep my blog in a tab and refresh it periodically to see if I wrote something that I don’t remember?
Composting versus Composing
Why is it that when I’m in the middle of writing, typing furiously, I spell writing writhing and composing composting?
Baby Bird Grows
Here are this week’s baby bird pictures. He’s very uncooperative and well-camoflauged. Silly darned bird.
A Writer’s Procrastination
Feeling like a writer means that your writing process accomplishes the following things when you’re trying to finally finish chapter three: rewrote deadlines on the whiteboard erased deadlines and rewrote them as a calendar cleaned up the desk cleaned up…
Drafting “Teaching Language Experts”
After two days of crazy writing in the office this week, I finally managed to finish an article for Classroom Notes Plus. It’s actually really long, so I’m sure that there will be rewriting to bring it down to the…