I am the daily host over at VerseLove for today’s prompt, which is called Writing The Night Sky, and invites you to use constellations of stars as an inspiration for a poem of space and wonder. Come join us. Here is mine: Vela SQ2 30°N – 90°S Your sisters of Heavenly Waters await your return […]
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Small Stories: Writing Microfiction on Mastodon
I am going to try do a few sequential days of writing microfiction, using daily one-word prompts by Wandering Shop Stories off Mastodon. It’s a challenge to write small but still capture the energy of a story or a character. Here are two of my stories … Word: Run The rabbit ran, in zigzag circles, […]
Collaborating With AI (Iteration One – Writing A Music Poem)
Ghost in the Machine flickr photo by Simon_68025 shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) Terry Elliott was exploring the Perplexity AI platform as a “writing partner” for poetry and it responded to a question of his about its own limitations in a way that caught my attention. “Poetry is […]
Blogging and Writing: A Stream A Collage An Unfolding
Tyler Weaver, in his newsletter, wrote this passage about blogs (such as this one you are reading) in a way that I thought captured my own sense of why I continue to come to this space, writing and sharing and thinking out loud. “… blogs work best as a crossroads between a stream and a […]
Generative AI and the Writing Classroom: WMWP Workshop
Last night, a colleague and I facilitated a fascinating discussion and workshop about the impact of Generative AI in the writing classroom. It was the first Western Massachusetts Writing Project event at our new university home — we move from the University of Massachusetts to Westfield State University – and I designed and led the […]
Writing Out(side) for Write Out
My students packed up their notebooks and pencils, and found a leaf, and then sat and wrote a story and made a leaf map, all for Write Out. It was a beautiful New England day. Peace (On The Grass), Kevin
Writing Poems For Write Out
Hey — Write Out 2023 kicks off tomorrow, and there’s a whole range of activities available for educators, student writers, community organizations and more. The theme this year is “Poetry, Prose and Parks.” Write Out is a partnership between the National Writing Project and the National Park Service. Each year, National Park Rangers record video […]
Writing Flashku for The Daily Create
A few months back, I saw a reference to a short writing prompt called a Flashku, which had me interested. I found out more — it’s short flash prose, inspired by an image and borrowing words from another text — and this morning, the DS106 Daily Create shared out the Flashku prompt. See mine above […]
WMWP Workshop: Writing In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
I am helping to co-facilitate a workshop session next month on the teaching of writing in the time of Generative AI, and we hope to gather together K-12 educators and university professors to discuss the changing landscape, and collaborate on paths forward. If you teach in Western Massachusetts, we invite you to attend. We scheduled […]
Write Across America: Hawai’i Writing Project and the Concept of Mo’olelo
The National Writing Project just kicked off its annual summer writing adventure called Write Across America, in which various NWP sites host online gatherings and share place-based prompts to spark writing. I missed the first session from the Hawai’i Writing Project, but the presentations are archived, so I went in to see what had been […]