Writing
With a mere eight weeks to assist them in extracting their stories from their memories and sharing them both on paper and aloud with the class, we start writing on the very first day. I remind them that this isn’t a theory class, but a writing class, so having them listen to me speak does no good without putting what is discussed during the lecture into practice.
my Boot Camp instructor, Stacy Ward, handed me a yellow wrist band etched with the words, “I Can Do This,” with the advice to glance at it each time I felt my resolve starting to melt. I put it on my left wrist, the side I’d be looking at as one of the left-side paddlers.
Those two seemingly innocuous words are so powerful in the mind of a writer. “What if” becomes the stuff of great stories.
Sometimes it’s hard to write. There are so many things going on around us, trying their darnedest to pull us away from our writing projects – kids, laundry, the phone…
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