December 4, 2021

Something I thought about:

• I was working with students on narrative voice this week, so I’ve been thinking about voice and psychic distance. The challenge of workshop this week was how to write an Experiencing I vs. a Narrating I (to borrow some terms from narratology) and to collapse psychic distance between protagonist and reader.

Something I did:

• I fell behind on grading last week and did a massive push to catch up and get ahead. It was a lot, but I made it!
• Started having individual meetings with students about their portfolios.
• Dealt with a lot of admin.

Something I read:

I keep finding interesting material in the category of literary (or artistic) ethics (should probably expand tags at some point). These are the latest essays in the pile:

• https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/11/29/can-we-still-bump-n-grind-to-r-kelly/ideas/essay/
• https://lithub.com/the-last-essay-i-need-to-write-about-david-foster-wallace/