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The Big Thing: FAQ
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A little blog about big things. Sunday, December 12, 2010. So Cathy, what happened? How did your students do? I’m so sorry it’s taken me awhile to update you! The end of NaNo is also the end of the semester, a busy time, as I’m sure you know. Three did not reach 50,000 words. One came within 5,000 words. Another came within 12,000 words. Another stopped generating new words at the midway point and started revising. So did the students who failed to reach 50,000 get a bad grade? If I only get halfway, wil...
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Fox con Sox con Blog: December 2010
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Fox con Sox con Blog. Passing Opinion Off As Fact Since 2009. Passing Opinion Off As Fact Since 2009. Friday, December 31, 2010. Top Lists By People Whom Responded To My E-Mail Asking Them To Make A List. Jennie Keinard's Top Bloody Marys! 1 Gravy - Portland OR - this was mad with a couple giant roasted tomatoes, smashed, instead of just tomato juice. points for giant celery. 4 Lodge - Brooklyn, NY - a solidly good drink that happens to be two for one during weekend brunches. Top 5 Awful Shows of 2010.
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The Big Thing: January 2011
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A little blog about big things. Monday, January 17, 2011. New Address for The Big Thing. I've been doing that whole crazy platform thang. My new blog. Also called "The Big Thing," no longer has "blogspot" or "wordpress" in the address, and wow, I feel so grown up. Please join me over at my new digital home. I'm going to keep this blogspot address, though. Maybe when I tire of writing about big things, I will return and rechristen this "Little Things.". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Muncie, IN, United States.
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The Big Thing: About Me
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A little blog about big things. Cathy Day teaches creative writing at Ball State University. She was born and raised in Peru, Indiana, which is best known as a circus town, but is also the birthplace of Cole Porter and the Spanish hot dog. She is the author of two books. Her most recent work is Comeback Season. Free Press, 2008), part memoir about life as a single woman and part sports story about the Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl season. Her first book was The Circus in Winter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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The Big Thing: Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
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A little blog about big things. Sunday, November 28, 2010. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction. Back to the Survey Monkey survey. I gave my students on November 16. This is a fairly long post, but that's because it's about one of the most important decisions my students had to make. Question 3: How would you describe the extent to which you prepared for NaNoWriMo? Many hours, lots of concrete planning 5. A few hours, some concrete planning 6. Hardly any time, hardly any planning 2. No time, no planning 0.
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The Big Thing: Survey Says!
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A little blog about big things. Thursday, November 18, 2010. On Day 15 of NaNo, I created a Survey Monkey. Survey so that I could check in with my students. This was so incredibly easy to create and implement, I know I will keep using this tool. This is what the survey looked like. I have 15 students, and 13 of them took the survey,. And I have decided to share this enormous. Amount of scientific data with you. Tomorrow's post: the "gamification" of writing a novel. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Big Thing: Toolbox Stories
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A little blog about big things. I should say this: I love short stories. This blog is not about dissing the short story. But to provide some balance, I thought I'd post this, my "toolbox stories." These are the stories I carry around with me in my handy-dandy toolbox, also called “my head.” When I read a short story or essay by a friend or student that needs some work, I think to myself, “What story does s/he really need to read? S/he needs to read [blank].”. Margaret Atwood, “Happy Endings”. Raymond Car...
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The Big Thing: New Address for The Big Thing
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A little blog about big things. Monday, January 17, 2011. New Address for The Big Thing. I've been doing that whole crazy platform thang. My new blog. Also called "The Big Thing," no longer has "blogspot" or "wordpress" in the address, and wow, I feel so grown up. Please join me over at my new digital home. I'm going to keep this blogspot address, though. Maybe when I tire of writing about big things, I will return and rechristen this "Little Things.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Be cool, soda pop.
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The Big Thing: MFA vs. NYC = Team Short Story vs. Team Novel
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A little blog about big things. Friday, November 26, 2010. MFA vs. NYC = Team Short Story vs. Team Novel. In his book, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing. Mark McGurl says that it’s time we paid attention to the “increasingly intimate relation between literary production and the practices of higher education.”. So This is me. Twenty years as a writer-teacher. Finally paying attention. Here’s Michael Nye at The Missouri Review. Here’s another response. 8220; MFA vs. NYC:.
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The Big Thing: October 2010
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A little blog about big things. Saturday, October 30, 2010. On Thursday, I took a break from thinking about my big thing to write a small thing. 8217;s “Seven Rings: A Game of Artists’ Telephone”. I signed on for this in June, and I've been nervously anticipating it ever since. What would they send me? Would I be inspired enough to write something? And would the story be good enough to publish? Which was a response to Adam Bateman’s art:. Sometimes it's only when we are presented with art that challenges...