This video is all about what it means to be a writer every day and about what it means to let your thoughts of being a writer invade everything that you do. You can hear me laughing during the "motorcycle" part of the video, and you can hear me say: "I'll provide the bumps." I think one of the most stunning aspects of this clip is the journal footage. 
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
THE OPEN ROAD: Writing is a Strange Adventure IV
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 - "I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me. . . Take the soft dust in your hand--does it stir: does it sing? Has it lips and a heart? Does it open its eyes to the sun? Does it run, does it dream, does it burn with a secret, or tremble In terror of death? Or ache with tremendous decisions?. . ." --Conrad Aiken
 
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The Secret of Hurricanes : That article in the Waterville Scout said it was Shake- spearean, all that fatalism that guides the Kennedys' lives. The likelihood of untimely death. Recently, another one died in his prime, John-John in an airplane. Not long before that, Bobby's boy. While playing football at high speeds on snow skis. Those Kennedys take some crazy chances. I prefer my own easy ways. Which isn't to say my life hasn't been Shake-spearean. By the time I was sixteen, my life was like the darkened stage at the end of Hamlet or Macbeth. All littered with corpses and treachery. 
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6 comments:
Your voice is delicious. Let's hear more! I love this stuff.
Gretchen
The journals ARE amazing! Were these journals they created for the course?
ump hf.
If I were any greener I'd be an alien invasion. I want to take your writing class.
I want.
Iwant.
Iwant.
iwant.
I need.
ineed.
need.
I have felt truly honoured to be allowed to 'sit in' on these sections of your classes. Thank you - and thanks to your students too for sharing their work.
The people in my class are so amazing! I realize this more and more as I rescreen our video.
Thanks for helping me to see this! And thanks for being such an awesome professor... seriously, you were a huge change from what I have all the time, and I really needed that.
As a future teacher, it's so good to see how much you (as a college professor!) care about your students. Seriously, seriously, seriously... thanks for being SUCH a great example.
Theresa, this is Wonderful!
What a great idea!
What terrific students.
What lucky students.
V
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