I Am a Slow Poke

This is the first assignment in the identity research paper called “Piece of Me: Identify Reflection” in which students list the various categories that they identify with and then pick one to look at in more detail. I’ve written about being a writer and a collector in the past. I Am a Slow Poke            …

“I Want! I Want!”: I Am A Writer

People talk about how you need to develop a thick skin if you want to be a writer, but I think of it more as a kind of scarred callous: criticisms are blisters that heal and eventually make us stronger.

“I Want, I Want”: Writing to Become: Example Annotated Bibliography

Is it worth it to put myself and my writing out there, to risk failure, exposure, ridicule? Am I being like the reckless climbing figure today, or am I the cowering spectators below today? Which should I be?

I Am a Writer: Research Proposal

People talk about how you need to develop a thick skin if you want to be a writer, but I think of it more as a kind of callous: criticisms are blisters that heal and eventually make us stronger. But it hurts in the meantime.

Piece of Me Identity Reflection: I Am A Writer (among other things)

I love the paradoxes of writing, the quiet chaos of writing, the energized calm of writing; I am silent and still and yet my mind is noisy and active.