Meet Julie DannebergI am retired now, but I was a teacher for many years. Throughout my career I taught all grades, but for the last 14 years I was a middle school teacher. I really loved teaching and of course, being around kids all day gave me LOTS and LOTS of ideas! Sometimes I even made…I mean asked…my students to read my stories and give me ideas for improvement.
“Writing that is over-planned and over-rehearsed is juiceless. Later drafts are about pumping it up. How much better to have a wild and somewhat unruly first draft, something so full of detail, it’s a question of what we want to leave in, not a question of what still needs to be added.” –Julia Cameron […]
As a teacher I loved the last day of school. Obviously, I was looking forward to a summer of no more (school) reading, no more (school) books, no more student’s dirty looks. But it also provided the perfect time to look back and reflect on the year, to really think about and examine the successes, […]
“There’s a difference between a work’s beginning and starting to work.” –Twyla Tharp. In her book, The Creative Habit: Get It and Use It for Life, the acclaimed dancer and choreographer shares the habits and mental approaches she uses to infuse creativity into her own life. For many of us, getting started on any […]
