I was a writing fellow at Stanford University and taught as a lecturer for three years in the early 1970s. In fact that was the prelude to my decision to go to law school. I'm an intensely goal-oriented human being. Teaching involves faith in a process and for a man at 25 or for this man at 25 that wasn't entirely satisfying. This is my get- reacquainted tour with teaching.
Writers sometimes give up living and act only as observers.
I can recall being at this very funky cowboy bar and all I could think about was how I would describe the way the light fell on the glass before me. Brick by brick. I think my effective contribution may be in line editing how can a sentence be abbreviated, more effective. I find myself talking most about strategies in narration which, shockingly, is the title of the course. My students are young and still isolated from a lot of their best material.