This is to prove you were wrong about me, Nancy Cotton, the professor at Wake Forest who gave me a final grade of D in Freshman English Composition when I was 18 years old. You communicated with that D that I wasn’t a good writer and you were not impressed; in fact, you went further […]
I remember being in a high school English class and we were discussing the book we had read called Catch 22. The feeling I got was the writer had fun writing the book. He was experimenting, making up silly names, amusing himself above all else, letting ideas drop onto the page exposing his audacity to keep […]
I struggle to justify posting a blog here about writing. Most of you, I imagine, don’t write for a living per se. Composing sentences may not be your favorite thing or obsession but it is most definitely mine. But there’s another part of me that thinks, hey, why not put down some thoughts about what […]