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'How I write' --
a dialogue with
4 members of the
English faculty
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| "Tell us about your greatest writing
success and your greatest writing failure -- maybe that's too strong
a word -- your greatest writing struggle." With that, Writing Center
Director Sydnia DeFranco kicked off an hour-long dialogue yesterday
afternoon (Oct 22, 2003) on "How I Write," with four members
of the English faculty at JCU. To hear audio streaming (MP3 files)
of how each responded, click on the thumbnail picture next
to each brief biographical sketch. Then click on the speaker icons
to hear how they combined to answer each question from the students
present in Room 203 of the O'Malley Center. |
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Maureen Yeager
(pen name Maureen McHugh), Parttime Instructor, has
published four novels, over 20 short stories along with two essays
and two poems, and has won a Hugo Award. |
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Tom Pace, Assistant Professor and
Director of First-Year Composition, has just co-edited a book of scholarly
essays on the teaching of style and is involved in projects on writing
instruction. |
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Steven Hayward, Assistant Professor,
won the Upper Canada Writer's Craft Award for short fiction, authored
Buddha Stevens, a Globe and Mail top 10 book of 2001,
recently finished a novel, Lucio Burke, and is working
on a second collection of short fiction. |
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Peter Kvidera, Assistant Professor
and a former Mellon Fellow for Duke's Center for Teaching, Learning,
and Writing, is working on projects stemming from his dissertation
"Narrating Americanization: Space and Form in U.S. Immigrant Writing."
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Do you have any interesting idiosyncracies or
habits that are part of your writing ritual? (8 min) |
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When you're working on a dissertation over a
long period of time, and you're growing as a writer, how do you retain
a sense of continuity in the work? (8 min) |
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Some people have careful outlines and some just
sit down and write. Do you start out with a vague idea or do you have
to plot it out? (4 min) |
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I've heard some writers say they start in the
middle. Do you do that, and if so, how do you do that? (Followup)
In fiction have you ever written the ending first? (5 min) |
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