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Category Archives: teaching
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
Posted in community, craft, teaching, writing
Tagged class discussion, feedback, Lindsey Crittenden, students, teaching, UC Berkeley Extension, writing classes, writing practice, Writing Skills Workshop
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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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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
Posted in reading, teaching, writing
Tagged Anne Lamott, Art of Fiction, Bird by Bird, books on writing, Borrowers, Fiction Writing Intensive, internal critic, Jane Anne Staw, John Gardner, Lindsey Crittenden, UC Berkeley Extension, uninvited guests, writer's block, writing process
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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
Posted in craft, reading, teaching, writing
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
Posted in craft, teaching, writing
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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