Hemingway famously said: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
Of course, English teachers struggling to get students to write more than just a sentence or two may beg to differ.
All too often the blank page or the blank screen can provide a barrier that seems unsurmountable to the average teenager, who – let’s face it – is skilled in fast and pithy one-liners that pay little attention to the rules of punctuation.
The plaintive “miss/sir, I don’t know how to start” is all too common and real problem for many of our students.
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