Gilmore Chapter 7-So What's Your Story?

I liked the concept of this chapter because often times pieces of creative writing in high school don’t get much attention, let alone revision time. Writing a poem, or a creative fictional piece is very different from writing a thesis driven research paper. Therefore its only natural that the revision would be different as well.

I must say that I feel like a slacker when it comes to responding to this chapter because I don’t have any particularly striking things to say. I think that Gilmore presents some really great strategies that I can use in my own writing. I like his ideas on poetry specifically, I think he has some great insight and like that he really stresses the idea of giving yourself time to work on a project. While a poem can come to you in 15 minutes, revising it the next day may not be constructive, it may be something that needs a few weeks, months even to go back to and really dig in deep to what you had to say, and maybe even combining other works. How true.

Lastly I liked the last sentence of this chapter: “If we can make writing fun and profitable (not in dollars but in satisfaction) we’ll help to create lifelong writers as well as better readers.”
Amen. Haha, but really isn’t this the whole point of why we are teaching English?Well said Barry Gilmore, well said.