The myth of genius authorship pervades, always. From the moment students are taught the basics of writing—the standard structures in which to say something in their writing—they are faced with a kind of unconscious model to mimic. Be that example essays of “ideal” scholarship or the supplementary literature they are given to think about and […]
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Who are writers?
While we were catching up over the weekend, a friend asked me, “have you told anyone to ‘write drunk, edit sober’ yet?” We got a good chuckle out of it but the question was on my mind when I chose “Writers are Mythical, Magical, and Damaged” by Teri Holbrook and Melanie Hundley as one of the […]