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This blog languished this semester while I taught fiction and forged through another workshop and a composition pedagogy class.

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But here is what I learned:. Teaching fiction in a workshop is as fantastic, frustrating, and fun as being in a fiction workshop. That Sherman Alexie stories will bring out unexamined privilege. That your students will surprise you with their creativity, shock you alternately with their originality and banality. That they are addicted to melodrama.

That a lot of them want to write stories about people with superpowers. That sometimes the harshest, truest, most unflinching stories come from the most unexpected writers. I learned that a class-wide round of exquisite corpse is a great tension breaker to end the semester.

Which is a whole new level of badassery I can barely understand nor contain. I should know.

★ Robert OConnor (In Plain Sight character)

The rest of me is ridiculously excited and has been planning a syllabus in my head since I got the news. It is amazing how night-and-day my attitude to teaching fiction is compared to teaching click. I realize I give zero shits about composition and rhetoric. But yeah. I get to decide what to teach, what stories get read, showcase what I think is important about literature and storytelling. Posts tagged teaching Choose another tag?]