Showing posts with label creative writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creative writing. Show all posts
Monday, October 07, 2024

Critique Groups

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 By Thomas Kies In my creative writing classes, I often suggest that the participants join the North Carolina Writers Network and the local ...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Read Your Work Out Loud

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   By Thomas Kies I was recently one of the judges in a short story contest called “Winter Hauntings”.  The winners were celebrated at a tic...
Monday, November 27, 2023

Weather or Not?

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 By Thomas Kies On Saturday I was the emcee at a Small Business Vendor Holiday event at our local community college where I also happen to t...
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Tuesday, February 08, 2022

The best advice

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by Rick Blechta Needing to fill a whole in my university timetable with an “academic” course — when what I really wished to do was take an a...
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Monday, December 13, 2021

Playing Pretend

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By Thomas Kies Last Friday was the third birthday of my twin grandchildren, Thomas and Caroline.  Not recalling what three-year-old children...
Monday, November 16, 2020

Blood on the Page

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 By Thomas Kies Our local college has contracted me to teach another Creative Writing course in January—if our state is still allowing in-pe...
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Monday, August 10, 2020

A Healthy Respect for Teachers

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As some of you know, I’ve been teaching a Creative Writing Class at our community college for the last six weeks.  Tonight will be our last ...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

We Are What We Read

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I’m nearly at the end of teaching my Creative Writing class and it’s been as much of a learning experience for me as it has for them.   We ...
Monday, June 29, 2020

Creative Writing 101

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A week ago, I started teaching Creative Writing again at our community college.  We’re all wearing face masks, are seated at least six feet ...
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Monday, June 15, 2020

Food--My Guilty Pleasure

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Shadow Hill , my latest Geneva Chase Mystery, is in the hands of my copy editor at Poisoned Pen Press. No sooner had I hit the Send button...
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Monday, February 24, 2020

Getting Readers Invested Through Emotion

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In the creative writing class I teach at our local college, my students all read from their works in progress.  I was very impressed with t...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Nervous About Teaching Creative Writing.

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Tonight I’m teaching my first Creative Writing class at our local community college. It’s a continuing education program so I won’t be gradi...
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