Frank Ocean Broke My Heart

 Figuring out how to be a writing coach has been an interesting experience. Unexpectedly, one that hasn't seemed to foreign. Sure, all the writing I had received has not been amazing, but shit, whose was at 15? Going into feedback has always been about building confidence while making incremental improvements. My opinion and help as a writing coach only go so far, when it comes to a persons own writing, they are always going to feel some type of way, and be a little protective over it, which I think they should be. at the end of the day you gotta turn it in, and live with what's on the page. The main thing that always goes on in my head, is "what would I want to read about my writing" or "how would this feel to read?" The truth of the matter is that I get pretty stubborn and hard headed if I feel like your comments come at me sideways, so being clear and specific is something I am always going to strive for. Letting the kids know that what they are saying ma...

 This week was the first time I had ever heard the word Zine. You could've asked me what that was, and I would've sworn that it was just a made up word. I'm not sure if that means I am out of touch or just ignorant to the world out there. My main relationship to multimodal composition, would I guess be podcasts? Growing up there was not a huge reliance on the internet, twitter didn't really start up until I was a freshman in high school, Myspace was poppin, but I was always a bit young for that, and Facebook was something I had, but was not on all the time. There were different blogs or bloggers that I found a connection with, and then before long the podcast boom erupted and everybody had one, or maybe more! There are fictional, story based pods, news, sports, pop culture, there is one for every niche or genre one can think of, which is cool, and lets all types of perspectives get a chance to shine (for better and for worse). One of the multimodal composition forms tha...

 My writing process is probably what I would at best call unconventional. I had always struggled with the idea of just being able to sit down and write. At the risk of me sounding as cliché as it sounds when I say it out loud, I really need to feel inspired. I refuse to choose a topic that doesn't make me feel something. Sometimes the topics are too broad, or too heavy in subject matter, to the point where I feel anxious, but I need that. Picking topics is just a brutal process. I literally get so cool with my teachers, because I need to talk out all my big brain ideas and have them pester me with questions. I need to feel like what I am writing about matters, like what I have to say is part of the change I talk about. I cannot just talk the talk, I need to be ABOUT it. So after I go through my own exhausting hellscape of a mind, I get to brainstorming on how to actually get the thing on paper and make sense. I have internal conversations with myself about how could I start that wi...