Heights teacher, Joe Breslin, discusses the problems with the contemporary approach to writing, and offers his strategy for raising craftsmen of letters. By turning your classroom into a workshop, you can engage your boys and train them in the arts of observation and effective communication.
Resources Mentioned in Podcast:
Joe Breslin’s webinar on The Heights Academy: Writing From the Sentence Up
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
-Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Joe Breslin teaches writing, and other homeroom subjects at the Heights School. He has published two collections of short speculative fiction, Hearts Uncanny: Tales of the Unquiet Spirit, and Other Minds: 13 Tales of Wonder and Sorrow. Samples of his fiction and his essays can be found at joeybreslinwrites.com.