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Both my kids are in school full-time this week, and I am finally able to devote some time to my writing. Today, I am working on two writing goals: 1) sending out my newly revamped query letter to agents, and 2) beginning a third draft of my manuscript. Diving into the manuscript will be hard,…
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My revision process is messy because I often start writing from inspiration, and then I keep going. When I write from an inspired phrase or image, I come up with creative ideas, but that writing often lacks order. So when I revise my creative work, I spend the bulk of my revision on the nuts…
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Day four of the Digital Pedagogy Lab, and I’m posting more and more creative work in public spaces. This coming from a woman who once took three years to Tweet. This is kind of a big deal. In Laura Gibbs‘ microfiction book, she mentions different ways to create a short story from prompts. I have…
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Day three of the Digital Pedagogy Lab, and after reading the chapter in Laura Gibbs‘ OER called Creativity and Constraints I’m trying one additional way of developing a condensed story. In Laura’s textbook, she talks about Tweet-sized stories. Instead of writing microfiction, I decided to develop a micro-essay, and I wanted to publish that micro-work…
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Today in my Digital Pedagogy Lab course, we are reading about how public domain and OER sources can help a microfiction writer create a compelling story. I found it helpful to use biblical verse to integrate a lot of meaning in a short amount of space. In Chapter Two, I appreciated the opportunity to peruse…
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I am having some pedagogical fun at the Digital Pedagogy Lab this week. The course track I am taking is called Critical Pedagogy and Storytelling, and it’s facilitated by Laura Gibbs, who keeps a blog of microfiction materials. I am going through chapter one of the microfiction OER text she created and I wanted to…
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Jennifer Jordan 