When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.
When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool an… - Ralph Fletcher
When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool an…
- Ralph Fletcher
You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matter… - Ralph Fletcher
You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matter…
Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret. - Ralph Fletcher
Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.
If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transf… - Ralph Fletcher
If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transf…
When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can anim… - Ralph Fletcher
When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can anim…
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastl… - Ralph Fletcher
G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastl…
The real meaning of a poem is to stop time. - Ralph Fletcher
The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do. - Ralph Fletcher
Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do.
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. - Ralph Fletcher
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.
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