First, Google has forced me to make certain changes to my Blogger account because of apparent conflicts with my email service. This may interfere with my Blogger access. I cannot explain the problem because I do not understand it. I neither speak nor understand computer language.

In just under two weeks, nonfiction writers will take to their keyboards to begin 30 days of work on a new project. Not only will they start that project, they will finish it. Why? Because that’s the challenge posed by Write Nonfiction in November (WNFIN).

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do–and they don’t.

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If you want to know something worthwhile about how to become more proficient in the profession of teaching, check out what D. G. Myers has to say in “Trade secrets of a pedagogue” at A Commonplace Blog.