Writing Exercises

I've been really busy this summer, and I haven't written much here. But, I've been wanting to talk about some of the classes I'm teaching, and the exercises I've been using to get these "kids" to write. Some of them are far from kids, but you know: it's hard not to think of even the seventy-year-old woman who's trying to learn how to write as one of my "kids".

I've been teaching two classes: a Regents Preparatory Course, and a Fiction Workshop. In Georgia, college students--if they want to gradu