Because I did not want to vote for Republicans, I chose these write-ins: Sheriff: my manager’s spouse County Treasurer: my officemate’s spouse Regional Superintendent of Schools: my manager Judge of the Circuit Court: my officemate I couldn’t help it. I…
Category: Personal Journal
My Writing: The Book Manuscript!
A manuscript has been submitted. Deadline met. And now, I’m allowed to sleep.
Terry Pratchett on Thinking Outside the Box
SmartQuote from Yesterday’s ASCD SmartBrief: “I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.” —Terry Pratchett, author
My Writing: Chapter 4 . . . Audience? Purpose? What?
I’ve been puzzling on this overnight. Rereading. Highlighting the freewrite from yesterday. I just continues to feel as if there’s something wrong. I do think that my problem is the rhetorical situation of a rhetorical situation, and maybe the metacognitive…
My Writing: Off-Focus
Good grief. I’m an idiot. Okay, I know what’s wrong with the old text. I was trying to write down the process of creating lesson plans and calling it something else. Most of the text that I have has to…
My Writing: Chapter 4 Meltdown
After a bit of a meltdown around noon, I’ve been sitting here at the computer trying to figure out chapter 4. Meltdown? Well, it’s just that I haven’t had a moment to write this week, even though I MUST finish…
My Writing: Chapter 4 Unstuck?
I may (I hope, I think, I dream) be unstuck. I rewrote an ending for Chapter 3 and started trying to figure out the structure for Chapter 4. In total, I probably wrote only 3 or 4 pages over the…
My Writing: Stuck on Endings and Beginnings
Well, it appears that I am stuck. Chapter 3 is 45 pages long, but the ending just doesn’t feel right. Nor can I manage to figure out how to start Chapter 4. The two chapters need to connect to each…
My Writing: California English Submission on Pop Culture
So because I was supposed to be figuring out how to start the chapter that is nearly a month behind, I wrote an article to submit to California English instead. The Winter issue is on pop culture, so I tossed…
My Writing: (Or Not My Writing)
Suddenly this afternoon, as I was trying to clean up the deep piles of work in the office, I realized that I haven’t posted in a month. I’m not sure what happened. What a sinking sad feeling to realize that…