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  • Part 2: Tips for sending out your CNF

    This blog post is the second in a series where I am sharing advice with some of my graduate students in a creative nonfiction workshop. One outcome of this course is that students develop an essay they have revised at least three times in a semester, and as part of a final project, they will

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  • Tips for Publishing Your CNF

    I am teaching a graduate creative nonfiction class this semester, and an outcome of this course is that students will have a draft that they have revised three times and they will send it out to places for publication. I am writing this blog entry for my students, and I am going to make part

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  • AI and its many (mis)uses

    I recently co-authored an article about using artificial intelligence (AI) to create open educational resources (OER). But that doesn’t mean I’m totally comfortable using AI. For example, I have had some weird experiences with ChatGPT, like when it told me I had great style. Hallucinate much? Then yesterday, Google’s AI told me my keyword search

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  • Bullet in my gratitude journal

    I basically have a week left of research leave this summer before I go on vacation (and I’ll probably write some more then too). The past couple of months have been a bit of a blur because I’m trying to get so much writing done, though writing scholarly work has gotten easier for me. First

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  • Dispatches from the Publishing Trenches

    I have been writing lately about how I am working to get my creative nonfiction manuscript Life in Flight published and out in the world. And now that I’m immersed in the publication process, I can see how easy it would be for a writer to feel lost once they have a manuscript that’s ready

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  • Ready, Set, Query!

    Ready, Set, Query!

    I just finished the eighth draft of my book Life in Flight. It’s actually the third time I have reworked the entire manuscript start to finish. The first five drafts were me trying to find the story. And now I am ready to query! I wrote my query letter using my voice and some phrases

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