Summer Writing Time

This bog is dedicated to the creative writing classes in the Menomonie Middle School,  or better said the former students of those classes,  now in vacation for the Summer.  It was my pleasure to be with you in class this Spring and invite you to read and critique my Blog.  A couple of changes have occurred,  more will follow as I can get them done.  My hope is that some of you will have enough interest to follow what I am doing if you can.

In the meantime,  I encourage you to keep writing,  keep your minds as active as possible during a season that is often thought to be "out to lunch."  Why?;   because as your teacher, Jay Collins puts it,  there is power in writing... and in the thinking and in the words themselves.  It was the writer Dorothy Parker who said something to the effect to be bored is to have a serious curiosity problem.   One way to avoid that is to engage your mind,  curiosity and artistry in writing.

As I shared with you in your class,  I seriously envy your chance to have creative writing as a class in middle school.  It took me so many, many years to learn how to write,  and it would have been better for all concerned (for example,  my teachers,  professors) if I had learned earlier.  When I went into the Raw Deal a few weeks ago and found Jay talking with a group of students in there I was very pleased to know that these were high school students who continue to get together with him about their writing.  Voila,  continuity,  and I suggest that to you this Summer,  without Jay Collins.  Enjoy yourselves,  you will be better prepared for classes and thinking to come if you continue to write.