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Tag Archives: UC Berkeley Extension
How Much Is Too Much, Part II
Last week, I blogged about the quandary of how to respond to student work. Here, a few writing teachers I admire share their approaches. Laurie Ann Doyle teaches creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension. Her story “Restraint” will be published … Continue reading
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Tagged anthologies, Boston University, characterization, Constance Hale, copyediting, criticsm, feedback, fiction workshop, fiction writing, Harvard University, Hawthorne Books, Holding Silvan, intimacy, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lindsey Crittenden, Madonna and Me, Midway Journal, Monica Wesolowska, motivation, narrative nonfiction, novels, online teaching, positive critique, positive feedback, praise, revision, Sin and Syntax, Stanford Continuing Ed, student-teacher relationship, syntax, teaching, teaching writing, Tomo, UC Berkeley Extension, University of San Francisco, Wendy Tokunaga, Will Baker, writing as process, writing classes
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Tryouts
I’ve always loved the form of the personal essay. As a teenager, I loved reading Mademoiselle and Glamour magazines, largely because of the personal essays in their pages by writers such as Mary Cantwell. A Google search leads me to … Continue reading
Posted in craft, reading, teaching, writing
Tagged Best American Essays, braided essay, Brenda Miller, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction classes, essais de Montaigne, essayer, Glamour, Glen Online, Julia Reed, Lindsey Crittenden, lyrical essay, Mademoiselle, Mary Cantwell, Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, personal essays, Suzanne Paola, Tell It Slant, the hermit-crab essay, UC Berkeley Extension, Walt Whitman, West Village, women's magazines, writing
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Why I Teach
Last Monday, at the second-to-last meeting of my Writing Skills Workshop class at UC Berkeley Extension, one of the students said, “I don’t even want to think about saying good-bye to everyone.” Her large, expressive eyes opened even wider, and … Continue reading
Try, Try Again
Whatever works for you, I tell my students. There’s no one way to write, no hard-and-fast rule that guarantees success, as much as we want one. And yet, certain koan-like statements have made it onto my bulletin board or refrigerator. … Continue reading
Posted in craft, teaching, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Caribou Island, Colum McCann, David Vann, drafts, Fiction Writing Intensive, index cards, Jane Anne Staw, Legend of a Suicide, Lindsey Crittenden, Lydia Davis, Post-its, Proust, Samuel Beckett, Swann's Way, The Millions, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' colony, writing process
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It’s About Time
This post continues discussion of the five components to a writing practice, as proposed by Jane Anne Staw in her excellent talk at UC Berkeley Extension’s Summer Fiction Intensive. How many of us say that we’ll write our novel, story, … Continue reading
Voices in Our Heads
This week’s post follows up on last week’s discussion of Jane Anne Staw’s talk on the five components of a writing practice, given at the Fiction Writing Intensive this past July at UC Berkeley Extension. Last week, I wrote about … Continue reading
A Safe Place
A few weeks ago, at the Fiction Writing Intensive offered by UC Berkeley Extension, writer Jane Anne Staw spoke of the five components of a writing practice. The first thing you need, she said, is a place. A real, physical … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiction Writing Intensive, Jane Anne Staw, Lindsey Crittenden, Poets & Writers, Sonoma County, The New Yorker, The Water Will Hold You, UC Berkeley Extension, Unstuck: A Supportive and Practical Guide to Working Through Writer's Block, writing, writing practice
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Two weeks ago, I heard Daniel Coshnear talk on “The Balanced Life.” It was the final day of UC Berkeley Extension’s Fiction Writing Intensive, and we’d gathered four panelists to talk about Where to Go From Here: Sustaining the Momentum. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird, Daniel Coshnear, Deborah Lichtman, Fiction Writing Intensive, grad school, Heather Cameron, Hemingway, Laurie Ann Doyle, Los Angeles Review, MFA programs in writing, Mimi Albert, rejection, self-publishing, success, The Atlantic, The Balanced Life, The New Yorker, UC Berkeley Extension, vanity press, writing programs
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It’s been a good couple weeks on the fiction front. First, though, a confession: I haven’t written in months – written written, that is. My work has taken a backseat to wedding planning, helping organize two major moves (fiancé in; … Continue reading
Posted in community, craft, reading, teaching, writing, writing groups
Tagged blog, Cody Gates, fiction, Fiction Intensive, fiction workshop, fiction writing, Good Letters, Jane Anne Staw, Laurie Ann Doyle, Lindsey Critenden, revision, Rincon, Ryan Sloan, UC Berkeley Extension, writers' group, writing fiction
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