Dear students, It’s the start of another quarter, and again, I am facing what has become a familiar and constant dilemma. How do I address AI? Okay, here’s one idea—what if I paint a nightmare scenario for you? It goes something like this—in an imagined near future, I use AI to generate an assignment, youContinue reading “Why AI Is Bad for Your Grade”
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A Fun Virtual Writing Class!
Registration for our summer virtual creative writing class Craft and Create: Writing in Community is open, and there are still some spots left! I’m co-teaching with my friend Christina Scheuer, who is an incredible book coach. The class is great if you have an idea for a writing project but don’t know how to getContinue reading “A Fun Virtual Writing Class!”
How We Developed Our Collaborative Feedback Process
By Diana Ma and Christina Scheuer We’ve been critique partners for many years, but it took us a long time (10 years!) to come up with our current feedback process, which has been extremely generative and rewarding, and which we’re excited to share. (We’ll also be teaching this in the Highlights Foundation’s Workshop on GivingContinue reading “How We Developed Our Collaborative Feedback Process”
We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program
In October of 2019, I was stuck. I’d been querying my YA novel for nearly a year in search of agent representation without success. Although I’d gotten full requests and even a few “revise and resubmit” requests from agents, I still hadn’t secured representation and had burned through all my ideas for revision. I’d revisedContinue reading “We Need Diverse Books Mentorship Program”