Friday Reflections

Good evening  I am curious about your own writing.  Do any of you have a writing practice, such as, journaling?  Just wondering.  If I were a betting man, I’d put money on it that many of you do have a writing habit of sorts – if not now, perhaps earlier in life.  Please consider sharing a posting with us – or even on the bigger stage of Two Writing Teachers Blog. Last week I talked about the blog – Two Writing Teachers. This blog offers us the opportunity to share a piece of our own writing on pretty much any subject. You will find the means to do that under “Slice of Life” .  Just wanted to throw this out to anyone so inclined.  I’m going to push myself to post something.  Courage, right?    At any rate, my thoughts on writing focused on Heart Maps or Close to the Bone maps.  It seems to me that such a map would be beneficial for different writing responses, and most especially when we require students to write t...

Several people “in the know” recently recommended a writing website – Two Writing Teachers  -  @2writingteachrs . Honestly it is taking me a little time to maneuver inside the website; if this website had not been so highly recommended, I would not have plowed my way through it. First of all, it’s not two writers – it started out as two writers in 2007, but when one of the original two writers left the blog – more and more were added – they are up to eight now.  You may want to open the “ABOUT” heading on their home page to read about these eight – their credentials are impressive. One way I will use to familiarize myself with the website, is to hone in on the postings of one of the eight bloggers. I plan to check out Elizabeth (Beth) Moore’s postings –since she’s done work with Lucy Calkins. Here’s an idea that might be useful to you for your writing workshops. Undoubtedly, some of you are familiar with the idea of Heart Maps as a way to build a writing life for you...