Well here we are, one week in to the madness. This time last year I had managed to keep up – seven poems-in-progress posted. Looking back, they included some of the best I wrote all month. Three damn good, one reasonable, two that will be recycled at some point, and one that … hmm, lets …
NZ takes on NaPoWriMo 2010
NaPoWriMo 2010 has officially begun! Good luck to all those taking part. Feel free to put a link to your daily efforts in the comments section of this post. For those of you who feel the need for a writing prompt to get you started, here's one of my favourites. Bon voyage! A Journey into Morning. …
Reading, Writing, and Good Intentions
Well that's Reading for Writing all done for term one. I've had a ball – I hope my students did too. (I guess that will become apparent when I get the signups for the term two classes …) The thing that amazed me was how happy everyone seemed to be to do the close reading …
almost here – NaPoWriMo 2010
Yes, it's just about time for that most insane of challenges, NaPoWriMo: write a poem a day for the entire month of April. Very simple: you can register with one of the many sites around (just Google NaPoWriMo 2010), or just do it below the radar on your own. The advantage of signing up is …
Punctuation for the Adventurous
I'm generally considered something of a Punctuation Nazi – there are at least two people I frequently work with (and who shall remain nameless) who freely admit that they just hurl punctuation marks randomly at things they plan to show me, in the utter certainty that I will be unable to resist sorting them out. …
A Dark Feathered Art 