5 Lessons I Learned From Teaching Creative Writing
PLUS: NEW ESSAY WRITING CLASSES START IN FEBRUARY
fuck the word count seriously I don’t think there’s anything more damaging than obsessively looking at your word count than when you’re trying to write an essay. An essay is an attempt, an effort to think something through, to get new insights, thoughts you weren’t able to procure any other way but to put one sentence after the other and we want to see that, we want to follow you on that journey and it is not helping when you keep looking at your step count instead of enjoying the scenery.
most writers have an innate fear of being seen and misunderstood I see it every year anew, the dread, the reasoning why someone hasn’t booked a 1:1 session yet or is anxious about the feedback session. The fear of being seen is so hard to overcome but unfortunately it is the very thing you will not be able to avoid when you want to be published and read widely by other people.
writing is much more about good self-parenting than anything else I often joke in my essay writing classes that this is very …
