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Talking the Walk, My Life Balancing Teaching & Writing
http://johncopenhaver.wordpress.com
As a teacher and writer it is hard to balance both lives. This blog is the journey I have taken to get my second novel published and how I do this balancing my life teaching and my life writing. Many guest blogging done by industry marketing experts to share tips on how a writer can increase marketing efforts without breaking the bank.
- Added on: Aug 7th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: John Copenhaver
- Listed in: Writing Fiction
- Tags: gay Marketing writing publishing historical fiction wwii
Recent Posts
Pining for Perspective: The Problem with Deep Revision
In my creative writing class this week, we are discussing revision. I’m having them read Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” and The New Yorker article titled “Rough Crossings” about Car...
Should regional voice conform to a reader’s expectation?
Today, to prepare to teach Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”—one my favorite stories—I read an excerpt from Mystery and Manners, her book of essays, speeches, and commentary on writing and the writing life.Â...
A Good Day for Poetry
I’m a fairly cynical teacher. At times, I feel as though what I say to my students, what I try to teach them about literature, about how to love literature, never makes it through. I do my song and dance. I try to project my enthusiasm fo...
Tending toward the dark
When I was a sophomore in at boarding school, my roommate’s mother thought I was suicidal. For parents’ weekend, my English teacher collected stories from our creative writing journal and assembled a photocopied handout for parents. I s...
A Look into the Future: Margaret Atwood re-imagines the reading
Last night—Friday, October 30th—I went to hear Margaret Atwood read at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University, promoting her new book, Year of the Flood. This novel is set in a future world, which has been devastated by a natural...
Under the Gay WWII Literary Mystery Section: Part Two
As I’ve been revising my novel, Dodging and Burning, I’ve been returning to previous thoughts that I had this summer about who will be (I hope) the audience for my book. Of course, it isn’t something a writer should ruminate on too ...
