thinking of writing, thinking as writing
Tonight I am going to teach my graduate Nature of Literacy course about teaching writing (just an introduction) and it probably couldn’t have come at a worse time. We’re about 2/3rds of the way through the semester and their big research papers are due today. So many of them were probably up late last night writing, and now they get to come in to learn about …. writing?!?! Yay. They’ll be psyched. This, of all my classes, is in many ways the hardest because I think it is writing they have the hardest time with and lately, I understand. Writing used to come easy to me, but it doesn’t anymore. Maybe it was doing my dissertation on what could only be called an abbreviated time frame, but I am struggling myself as a writer with getting the words to come out right. That’s partly why I started this blog, to give myself a reason to write on a regular basis, and that seems to be working OK. Yet I still fight with myself when it comes to writing articles and conference papers. I’m not sure why — there’s this seed of self-doubt that has definitely taken hold and I am fighting with it…