Yesterday, in class, Sam whisper-said to me, and I’m paraphrasing, “post about your book!” I wrote a YA novel called Getting Over Max Cooper. What is it to write a work of fiction? Create a world that is filled with characters that have engines that drive them? Work within a paradigm of writing that is unique to the voice of the character? That was my challenge. To write from a sixteen year old’s perspective, this nuanced and complicated story, that delved into the unbridled tension of the heart but also stay inside the parameters I’d established for those characters—being true …

I have been thinking alot about our auto-ethnography posts on padlet. Writing mine was cathartic. While the amount of selfies on my camera roll might expose my narcissistic tendencies (although I like to think of it within the frame work self love) the auto-ethnography assignment felt third person-y in a way that led to introspection. I am still working out why that is. The equalityarchive is where I am going to focus my efforts for the short project – but after a brief conversation with Matt after class – I began thinking more and more about an auto-ethnography project for …