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So–yes another shorter blog entry–I’m going to the University’s Writing Center today to workshop a short-story. The story is called Whale Song and I’ve submitted it frequently, but I’ve been told that the main character comes across as a bit of a jerk. I didn’t really know how to fix it, so I stuck it in the “drawer.”
Well, there is anthology that is open until Nov. 1st, so I want to polish it up and send it out. My goal is going to be to find out if the main character is a jerk and if so, brainstorm a couple of ideas that I have for a revision.
For some reason, my students are reluctant to go to the Writing Center in order to improve their writing. I guess they see it as a mark of “weakness” or “failure” if you need to get extra help. What I’m trying to get them to see is that the writing center gives them knowledgable people that they can bounce ideas off of. No writing center can “fix” a paper because the paper is the tangible expression of the writer and (generally speaking) we don’t go around “fixing” people. Maybe through my example, my students will become more used to going to the Writing Center to help themselves become better writers.
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