Comments on: How to Teach Writing to Beginners (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part IV) https://thethepoetry.com/2010/11/how-to-teach-writing-to-beginners-towards-a-different-kind-of-workshop-part-iv/ Where was it one first heard of the truth? Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Daniel Silliman https://thethepoetry.com/2010/11/how-to-teach-writing-to-beginners-towards-a-different-kind-of-workshop-part-iv/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Daniel Silliman Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:20:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=2939#comment-680 "to blaspheme against the cliche" should probably be the title of something. Maybe Joe's book about writing and writing workshops? The stuff about eyes here made me laugh. Russians and pop song writers! I think we need a picture of Joe, though. Lacking one, we should use the picture of the bust at the top of this post. “to blaspheme against the cliche” should probably be the title of something. Maybe Joe’s book about writing and writing workshops?

The stuff about eyes here made me laugh. Russians and pop song writers!

I think we need a picture of Joe, though. Lacking one, we should use the picture of the bust at the top of this post.

]]> By: Daniel Silliman https://thethepoetry.com/2010/11/how-to-teach-writing-to-beginners-towards-a-different-kind-of-workshop-part-iv/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Daniel Silliman Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:20:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=2939#comment-681 "to blaspheme against the cliche" should probably be the title of something. Maybe Joe's book about writing and writing workshops? The stuff about eyes here made me laugh. Russians and pop song writers! I think we need a picture of Joe, though. Lacking one, we should use the picture of the bust at the top of this post. “to blaspheme against the cliche” should probably be the title of something. Maybe Joe’s book about writing and writing workshops?

The stuff about eyes here made me laugh. Russians and pop song writers!

I think we need a picture of Joe, though. Lacking one, we should use the picture of the bust at the top of this post.

]]> By: Anonymous https://thethepoetry.com/2010/11/how-to-teach-writing-to-beginners-towards-a-different-kind-of-workshop-part-iv/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Anonymous Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:31:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=2939#comment-674 i began writing just by imitating. it'd be interesting to see how you could incorporate imitation into teaching beginning writers also. i think mimicking, in a sense, is an important way of learning. when you mimic, you digest all the elements that would take you years to learn and practice from a textbook. i spent most of my first few years of high school trying to write like t.s. eliot. then i spent early college imitating louise gluck. then whitman, then david ferry...come to think of it, i don't think i've stopped imitating! i began writing just by imitating. it’d be interesting to see how you could incorporate imitation into teaching beginning writers also. i think mimicking, in a sense, is an important way of learning. when you mimic, you digest all the elements that would take you years to learn and practice from a textbook. i spent most of my first few years of high school trying to write like t.s. eliot. then i spent early college imitating louise gluck. then whitman, then david ferry…come to think of it, i don’t think i’ve stopped imitating!

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