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I am teaching a creative writing class in the fall, and I’m also working on a memoir manuscript, and I am hoping to make the two endeavors sync up together in meaningful ways by developing a reflective writing and teaching practice. Currently, as I work on revising my manuscript, I am reading through it and
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I am working on the eighth draft of my memoir manuscript, but there are more drafts than that. This is the eighth draft of the book with its current name. In Google docs, it’s called Life in Flight version VIII (it sounds fancier with Roman numerals). My manuscript at its root is a mother-daughter story.
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Here’s some math about having an academic job. It could take three hours to write two paragraphs of a scholarly article, and that’s not counting the time it took to think about my research. Then after those three hours, I might delete one of those paragraphs because perfectionism gets me every time. That’s the thing
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Less than a year into my job as an open educational resource (OER) librarian, a coworker told me I wasn’t actually a librarian. She said she didn’t know what I did, but my job wasn’t a librarian’s job. I wasn’t sure how to get out of this conversation. Distraction worked with my kids and my
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I’ve been doing this thing called advocating for my students. It is exhausting. Here’s how you do it. You learn about some decision that will affect the students at the university where you work. You worry spiral in response to thinking about all the ways this new program will affect both students’ outcomes and the
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It was the first grade. I had two pretty influential assignments: one was to write a story, and the other was to write a picture book. I don’t remember what the prompt was, but basically, my first grade writing teacher instructed my class to write a story. There had to be a plot. There had
Jennifer Jordan 