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Tag Archives: Lindsey Crittenden
Vacation Reading
Read anything good on vacation? We haven’t even decided where we’re going this year—Grand Tetons? Hawaii? Yosemite? Stinson Beach?—and already I’m answering the question. You see, as soon as I start thinking about where, I start considering what books to … Continue reading
Posted in reading
Tagged Adam Gopnik, Big Island, Danielle Steel, Donna Leon, Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, Hawaii, Homer, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lake Tahoe, Lindsey Crittenden, Marilyn French, Maui, mystery novels, New Yorker, novels, Odyssey, Rome, Ruth Rendell, Sea Ranch, Stinson Beach, The Exorcist, The Professor and the Madman, The Women's Room, vacation, vacation reading, VRBO, Yosemite
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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
Posted in craft, teaching, writing
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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The Gift of the Tortilla
At writers’ group last week, I mentioned how hard it is to get back to work after breaking for lunch. “Bring a snack in with you,” Monica said. “Then you can keep going until two or three.” She smiled: “I … Continue reading
Posted in writing, writing groups
Tagged "Bees for Honey, bread, Davis, Dixon, dough, El Burro, flour tortillas, I-80, inspiration for scene, Juanita Lane, kneading bread, Lindsey Crittenden, Main Street, Mexican restaurant, Micaela's tortillas, San Francisco, snacks, Sutro tower, The View from Below, TIburon, tortillas, UFW, United Farm Workers, writers' groups, writing retreats, writing scene, writing schedule, writing snacks
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How Much Is Too Much?
I’ve been teaching for more than ten years, and I like to think I’ve learned a thing or two along the way. But every so often, I’m brought back to a question I struggled with early in my teaching career: … Continue reading →