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Following Through

6/29/2013

 
I know to teach writing you have to write. To teach writing well, you have to write. Yet. I stumble on this yet all the time. I make time to read the latest professional books on writing. I follow writing blogs. Yet my follow through is weak.

I carefully choose a writer's notebook--a journal that I want to write in.  We are good friends in the beginning. But then, I misplace it. Or somehow the spine breaks. Or I realize I can barely read my own scribbly handwriting. And then I get distracted by a new something. Did I mention I am incredibly slow, too? It can take hours to write a paragraph. A single paragraph.

It bothers me. I want to follow through. So, I am beginning again. Once more, I tell myself what I tell my students: readers and writers are brave. 

"Be bold, be bold and everywhere be bold"  Herbert Spencer
(as quoted in "Roxie and the Hooligans")
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