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He’s so redundant, send help

Teaching writing is fun + experimental
Writing as a way to think and learn + as a recursive process that is subjective to the writer
Teaching as a responsive process—most effective bc it teaches students how to read their drafts to improve them
Writing as an interconnected element—1 lego alone means nothing but in a construction creates something wonderful
Writing is diverse + has multiple good ways of doing it

“Whose art is also true greed”

“As a straight white boy of color”

“Destined to live with two first languages, two countries, two selves, and in the space between them all”

Love the assonance and sibilance in “Election Year”

“The muck outside your kitchen window is the garden you promised to keep”

“You step again into the ache of your boots”

“The poppies scream red the blue asters gasp for air”

“A garden tended under a constitution of stars”

It’s a drag.

I’m not compelled by the prose, I find myself skipping parts to get to the point faster

Too much inferiority in moments where it’s not needed to give the reader too much information that we don’t necessarily need all at once

“Pun is double-jointed literacy” ❤️

I’m skipping over whole entire paragraphs of over exposition. It has good bones and a good story idea, I just can’t get over the WattPad-like writing. The author should have either hired a developmental editor or gone through at least another round of edits with Beta readers

3 chapters of filler content. And why do I have to be told the SAME thing in 17 different fonts??

I just finished chapter 1. It is 9 audio tracks of absolutely nothing else but useless and repetitive backstory which has officially made me loathe this book. If this author had a good editor they would have told her to cut this shit out and spread it through the rest of the story instead of info-dumping all over the page. The only reason I'm gonna finish it is because I paid for it and I refuse to waste money.

Really really hate her so much. Should've never done that shit. Made your bed, lie in it, bish 😤

She's so judgmental, look at the kettle... 😵‍💫

I hate the narrator so much which is making it so hard to put this book down and at the same time to continue it. She knew better. I want to see everything she's "built" burn to ash. She doesn't deserve any of it. 🤬