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  • Just had to write when I saw your name: since teaching the Oresteia to my students I have always been drawn to the prophetic prowess of Cassandra and the way it became a curse. I am a...
  • ...s beautiful, "We heal when we transmute the chaos of life into the structure of a novel, when we learn to walk through the world as observers and students rather than wounded, when we...
  • ...t thesis and thank you for this informative article! I am sure that it will be useful for studets, who can't cope with theses writing. Still, for students, who still can't deal with th...
  • Great tips for writing the college essay. Besides, they are so well decorated. And yes, I agree with your statistics, that 4 out of 5 students have no writing skills. For example, my y...
  • So glad it was helpful, Maureen. Thanks for the comments, everyone. I see the need in so many of my clients and students (and published authors) to change their orientation around their own expertise.
  • ...ouble getting myself to promote it to prospective agents and publishers, even though I have a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences and taught medical students for three decades! How did yo...
  • ...'ve been through the process you describe, with my first book, a memoir, and now I'll keep your words near my desk and share them with my writing students. Good luck with your novel, a...
  • Hope, thank you for your comments. I'm delighted my post can be of use to your students. That warms my heart! 
  • This is a beautiful article about persistence overcoming self-doubt. And about not letting others instill self-doubt in us. Thank you for sharing it, Irene. I'm going to pass it along to my students.
  • ...nds with a lyrical and horrific poem by an African-American child writing in rural Mississippi (1964) The young civil rights worker has asked his students to write "what's black," and...