[stylist] NFB Writers' Division November Gathering, This Sunday- SPECIAL GUEST
Robert Leslie Newman
newmanrl at cox.net
Sat Nov 23 02:51:31 UTC 2013
Hi you all
RE: A reminder, November 24th, guest is a college writing instructor, setup
for us by Chelsea Cook
First, here is the info you need to get on the call:
The date of the call: Sunday November 24th
The time for the call: 8:30 ET, 7:30 CT, 6:30 MT, 5:30 PT
Phone number to call: 1-712-432- 0460
The access code: 568839Pound
**Second: Here is Aileen's BIO
Aileen Murphy
Director, Blue Ridge Writing Project
Senior Instructor, Department of English
Virginia Tech
Aileen Murphy is the author of a chapbook, There Will Be Cats, a collection
of poetry on the
subject of raising a child with Asperger's Syndrome. She is a Senior
Instructor in the
Department of English at Virginia Tech, and the Director of the Blue Ridge
Writing Project, a
professional development site for teachers from Kindergarten to college.
She teaches creative
writing and more recently community writing. She enjoys writing poetry as
well as nonfiction.
After reading her bio, I wrote Aileen and asked for a one-liner of what is
her best advice to a developing writer and here is what she wrote back:
A one-liner that includes my greatest advice to a developing writer: Naomi
Shihab Nye says in her poem "Valentine for Earnest Mann" that poems are
everywhere and "what we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them."
With that in mind, I suggest that you have with you at all times a way to
write ideas down that occur to you throughout your day. If you write
something down when you get a good idea, you can look at it later when you
have more time, when you are better set up to write. But you cannot trust
that you will remember it later, so write it down, type it into a smart
phone, record your voice saying it. I hand out little journals to my
students at the beginning of a new semester that is just a dozen sheets of
blue or peach colored paper for them to use not only in my class, but also
for them to carry around so they always have a place to record it when an
idea presents itself.
Sorry, that is not one line. In one line, I would say:
Look for poems out in the world presenting themselves to you, and have a way
to record any potentially good ideas before they are lost.
Robert Leslie Newman
Personal Website-
Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment
http//www.thoughtprovoker.info
NFB Writers' Division, president
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net
Chair of the NFB Communications Committee
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