Sweet Writing Life
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I am a fourth grade teacher in southeastern Wisconsin. This is my 7th year teaching fourth grade and I love it! I love that every day is a new day and there is an opportunity to learn something new.
Sweet Writing Life
3y ago
Like many others, my to-do list these days is a mile long.
Just this morning, I was writing today's list of things I needed to get done in my journal and I ran out of lines. (It's going to be a really busy day apparently!)
But as I looked down my list, everything I had written there had something to do with work:
New course
Send chat to Tim
Logo design in Canva
Start new website
Research Medium
Write 300 words on the book
And while these things are certainly important, I wondered where the 'me' time was.
The other day, I read somewhere about taking time to read for pleasure for 21 minute ..read more
Sweet Writing Life
3y ago
My alarm went off at 4:45 am, but I was already awake.
I had first opened my eyes at 3:12 am.
Squinting at the clock across the room, I was sure that I had missed it. I gave a sigh of relief that I had not, and then also silently swore because I had awoken so early.
My alarm was set for 4:45 am because I needed to get up to start the Zoom for my Wake Up & Write group. For the month of March, many of my Time to Write writers are coming together first thing in the morning to silently write together. Just us, our writing, and our coffee.
From 5:00 until 6:00 AM Cen ..read more
Sweet Writing Life
4y ago
The idea for #TeachWritetober came to me last year. A group of friends and I were all participating in November's NaNoWriMo. We were chugging along, writing every day -- until NCTE hit in the middle of the month, only to be quickly followed by Thanksgiving and thinking about the upcoming holidays. Needless to say, I didn't write a word after the 14th of November. November is a really hard month to commit to writing a great number of words. (NaNoWriMo has a 50,000-word goal.) There are so many days I'm away from home that I was doomed to fail before I even began. Hence, the idea to move a da ..read more