Welcome to the latest episode of Watch/Listen/Read brought to you by the 2 Rules of Writing team. This column is our chance to relax a little, share what we’ve been diving into this week, and to get your recommendations, too. Erika writes: Art for the Exhausted I’ve had one of those weeks where I cannot…
Category: Another World Within
Exposition versus Emotion: A Writer Chooses
The other day I was talking to a friend about a piece she was writing. Ray tends to write in a personal style, but is starting to include more academic sources. Considering my own traumatic brush with academia, I’m ambivalent about this. One thing she said bothered me, because of what it represents. She said:…
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Life Begins
Learning To Read I loved books even before I could read. Before I could read, I would demand that my mother read the same book over and over until I’d memorized it. She got so frustrated that she bought me a tape recorder and began recording the books I loved so that I could just…
Sunday Summary
Welcome to the Sunday Summary for the week of 3 January 2022-8 January 2022. The 2 Rules team took a little time off to recharge. We’re back now and ready to bring you more incredible writing, along with some website updates. Make sure you’re following us so that you get all of the announcements–new website…
It’s Caturday and We Have Questions
Hey, all! Big Cat and Little Cat are curious about mentorship today. They wanted to start by thanking the teachers who long ago taught them to sit on Erika’s keyboard…or face when she’s trying to write. It seems to come so naturally to them. Turns out there’s a technique to it. Who knew? Anyway, drop…
Watch/Listen/Read
Erika Writes: Goodbye Sidney Poitier I’m writing this with the movie To Sir With Love playing in the background. It’s one of my favorite Sidney Poitier films, and always good for a good cry–fitting it seems, upon hearing of the passing of Sidney Poitier. It’s hard to choose a favorite film–the first one I ever…
The Covid Classroom: A Love Story
My frustration with Covid is not health-related. For some reason, even with the initial panicking, supermarket robbing, emergency online teaching, I was relatively calm, sometimes even amused and excited, because none of this had ever happened before in my life. And to stay at home and to take care of the girls and to stockpile…
An Archaic Concept Of Me
Editor’s note: Welcome to our first serial! John will be making these “deliveries” to us once a month on a Thursday. The Opening: I was young; I was anxious; I was bound to an archaic concept of me. She smoothed my mind and body with her sunny day thoughts and yoga softened hands. I agreed…
New Year’s Writing Resolutions: Avoiding Burnout
I managed to convince myself to take a week off from posting to the website, as a means of avoiding burnout. It wasn’t easy, but it was necessary. As much as I want to post every week, every day, even, to keep up consistent site traffic, I recognized that my energy is not unlimited. I…
Unlaced
i learned how to tie my shoes when i was five and i washuddled in my best friend’s bedroom, two houses down and across the street from my house,each of us knew how to do half the job.we didn’t plan it that way, it just happened when they were trying to teach us the whole…