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Time and Teaching

Angela Kordahl - February 12, 2013

Once, when I was in teacher-training school, my class had to read an article about English teachers and writing. This article expressed the belief that such teachers should not pursue their own writing projects, because any time spent on self-centered expression was time taken away from lesson planning and grading, the true purposes of life […]

At Least My Friends Don’t Sit On My Face

Eliza Jaquays - April 27, 2012

Prioritizing is a pain in the ass. There simply aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Something’s going to get pushed back until tomorrow… which comes with its own to-do list. Some things are easy to put first on the agenda. Obviously I’m not going to go into work naked because there […]

Blitzkrieg! (followed by inevitable Hibernation)

Ted Boone - January 19, 2012

Writing fiction has, for the most part, been a seasonal occupation for me, centered around the month of November when NaNoWriMo happens. During the month of November, I churn out something between 50,000 – 80,000 words. Sometimes that effort spills into December, and this year that effort has spilled into January (I should probably admit […]