Writer, Professor, and Everything Else
I just got an email via tech-rhet about the Computers and Writing Conference, which is going to be at Stanford Univesity this year. To be honest, I haven’t heard much about this year’s conference, though I haven’t been paying that much attention, either. Don’t get me wrong– C&W is always a great conference, and while …
This semester’s classes end April 19 (finals end April 26), and I am limping to the end. It has been an absolute crazy semester for me. Among other things: I taught two courses completely new to me (English 323 and English 621) and one class more or less new since I changed most of the …
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When I was about 13 or 14, my family (parents, three younger sisters, and me) took a 3 week tour of the west. Thanks to the fact that my parents back then would gleefully drive us for eight hours at a time, we hit everything: the Grand Canyon, Vegas, LA (and assorted amusement parks), Yellowstone …
As I mentioned the other day, I have a fairly small speaking role this year at the CCCCs in San Francisco. I’m participating on the Creative Writing SIG and the title of my talk/presentation is “Blogs and the Writerly Life: Publishing, brainstorming, Linking, Talking.” I don’t expect to talk for much more than about five …
I’m trying to fight off a cold, recover from a busy week that included unexpected travel (which also involved being unexpectedly snowed in), and prepare for the upcoming CCCCs pretty much all at the same time. All of which means my head is feeling pretty fuzzy this morning, so you’ll have to bear with me …
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Getting ready for the CCCCs in San Francisco, but don’t really know what to do? Check out John “A Writing Teacher” Lovas’ list of stuff to do while not attending sessions. John is a native, so I’m going to trust him on this. Surprisingly, there was only one free wireless hotspot on his list near …
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Say, here’s a question for you: How do you know that you’re a complete and total writerly/computerly/blogger-ly geekazoid? Easy. You’re watching CSPAN2’s coverage of the panel talk “Literary Blogs and Their Influence.” Actually, this isn’t as sad/pathetic as it sounds. I mean, it’s not like I said to myself “hey, Christmas Eve– time for CSPAN!” …
My ticket– er, appearance on the program– to the CCCCs in 2005 is participation on the Creative Writing Special Interest Group (SIG) where I’m going to talk about blogging as a tool for creative writing. This isn’t as odd as it might seem because, before I became a “comp rhet guy,” I was a “fiction …
The “call for papers/proposals” for the 2005 Computers and Writing Conference has just been posted. C&W is by far my favorite conference because it is most specifically about what it is I do as a scholar and a teacher, and it’s just a really friendly and laid-back group of people. I gave my first conference …
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