“...we need to write new stories, stories that, 300 years in the future, people will be able to look back upon and remark how they inspired us to new heights and to new shores, how they showed us new paths and new possibilities, and how they shaped our world for the better.”

 

we need to tell stories that plant the seeds, if not necessarily for utopias, then at least for great new projects of technological, societal and institutional transformation.”

 

“... we need to remember that sometimes the stories we tell each other are more than just tales or entertainment or narratives. They're also vehicles for sowing inspiration and ideas across our societies and across time.”

 

Haiku Moment: "I am a kitten..."

 

Chapter One of "Quest" (from August 1987)

 

Mark Twain on the importance of word choice....

 

I added a poem to my poetry site....

 https://sites.google.com/view/poetryfolioofkjw/random-poems

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it..."

 

“I think writers are like cows.”

 

A quotation from Penny Kittle on teaching the skill of writing

 Penny writes:  "If you aren't as driven to teach and nurture writers as writing demands, then you'll lose kids who need all of the scaffolding that brings the power of writing well within their reach. Organization leads struggling writers to competence. Writing teachers must be writers and they must be master teachers. When the two come together, kids learn fast... All kids learn with patience, empathy, and good instruction. But the instruction has to come during the process of creating the piece, not in polishing the product, or nothing changes."

• Penny Kittle, "Write Beside Them" (8)

"I now believe you really can't teach writing well unless you write yourself."

 

“If you ask them, they’ll tell you. We aren’t tapping into their passions.”

 

The teaching of the skill of writing should not be tied to literature analysis