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Originally Posted by Miles
Writing about anything when you give a shit about how it reads is a good way to work on it.
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This. I'm sort of obsessed with this, because I'm an English teacher. Study after study shows that people actually caring about what they're writing and how they present themselves in writing is the essential step to them becoming good writers. How many people do you know (hell... how many of you?) couldn't write worth a shit until you entered into your field of study or current job and then suddenly... you became a better writer? Until what you're writing is something you're invested in... it's hard to become a better writer. This is why teaching writing to teenagers is such a hard job. I have your kids that care... and then I have the majority of kids who don't care. Which is why so many teachers resort to "soft" writing (introspective personal narratives) in an effort to get the kids to write about something that matters to them. This often ends up in shitty writing because the kids don't care and the subject/topic assigned has no rigor. Writing pedagogy is a Catch-22.