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I do consider myself a "writer," I guess. I worked REALLY hard at Temple to hone my historical writing. really hard. I love reading and writing within the discipline. It took a long time for me to feel confident in that identity, but over time I began to see the legitimacy of my work (yes, it is mostly about Mothman). More importantly, though, I began to see the legitimacy in everyone's work. I felt that there was a lot of red tape around being "a writer." But realistically, good history comes from all over. I am a big multiple drafts kind of person. I also am a HUGE fan of peer feedback (not collab writing though).

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1. I have found both solace and anguish in writing. Sometimes it is my favorite thing to do and the only way to get out what I am thinking or feeling but sometimes, it is the thing I put off the most because it causes me mental strain.

2. I guess I would identify as a writer. I do it all the time and in different mediums. From time to time I feel like I enjoy or feel proud of something I have written. Other times I feel like I have great stories or things in my brain but writing feels like the one obstacle standing in the way of those ideas being fully actualized and made permanent on the page.

3. The best practice I have found for writing something is to go with the momentum! If I have one idea that I feel somewhat confident to just go with that and save the rest for later. I also love using voice memos.

4. I feel like my identity as a writer connects me to teaching writing with my students because I know firsthand the insecurities that come with writing. I am a big-time procrastinator when it comes to writing and I often have trouble putting the first word down. I have shared my voice memo strategy with students and have also offered to scribe for them as they tell me their ideas. These moves, both efforts to fight against that initial writer's block we collectively experience, have been successful!

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I don't mind writing. I think I prefer argumentative writing/theory or writing for fun like movie reviews lol. I don't really identify as a writer because I don't sit down and compose something.... When writing I find it helpful to start by annotating texts or to already have a strong opinion on the topic. I don't really think my experiences with writing are that helpful for getting young students to love writing... the type of writing that I like to do / want to teach is a bit beyond my current kids' capacity so it feels unsatisfying teaching it at the moment.

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I consider myself a writer. I've always liked writing but at times find it difficult. Despite being someone that studies writing, sometimes I feel inept as a writer. I think some of this stems from high school when I couldn't figure out what teachers actually wanted. I remember handing in a literary analysis essay and the teacher saying, "that's the wrong interpretation." Later, in college, I remember getting my first paper back and there was entirely red ink, without an opportunity to revise. Then, I had a an amazing history professor who I talked with once per week about my writing, senior year. It was a super transformative experience, getting to actually revise, think-aloud with someone, and revise some more. This experience deeply informs how I think about teaching writing. I need to do multiple drafts to write in the ways that I like to. I don't outline much. I like talking to people about my writing after I've done some drafting. When I was taught to teach writing, it was very formulaic, and I didn't have the structures to support a variety of writer, which I think might be why I'm kind of obsessed with varying scaffolding

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1. I have an academic relationship with writing. I've been tasked to write within a broad range of academic subjects like, political science, Human rights, Law, and education. I now have an evolving relationship where I am still an academic writer, but now I am teaching others how to write as well.

2. I do. I write a decent amount even when I'm not being assigned a writing task. I'm hoping to become published at some point in my lifetime.

3. Finding subjects that are meaningful to me always seem to inspire me to write.

4. A genuinely enjoy many of the topics and issues that we cover in my U.S. History classes, and this connects with who I am as a writer. But I am also trying to learn more about what inspires my students to write as I continue to evolve as an educator.

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Writing is complex for me. I love to write in casual ways (like in a journal, random writing prompts about life etc), but writing in school is challenging for me. During high school I had some serious writing assignments, some of them were interesting but others it was always getting the work done just to get it done. I guess I felt proud because they were some serious papers etc, and I received good feedback. However, in college the lack of feedback in large lecture classes set me back. Now in grad school at this ~prestigious ivy league  school~ I feel childish in my writing and I have never felt proud in anything I have turned in because I lost all my skills in college! This is my sob story. Also my short attention span fails me when writing

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This is super long becauseeee I really enjoy writing, I've always had the desire to be a good writer and for a while that was mostly centered around writing fiction or poetry. Don't get me confused though, I never really pursued this desire much up until I took a creative writing course my last semester of college.

The creative writing course changed my perspective on writing in several big ways. First I always have been confident in myself as a writer, and I fancied myself a good writer. However after a week or two in the creative writing course I realized: 1. my writing practice was nonexistent 2. I was in fact a very unpolished writer and 3. Writing can take way more forms than sitting down to write the next Game of Thrones, powering through a groundbreaking 100 page research paper, or penning something to rival Edgar Allen Poe.

Taking the creative writing course also showed me the importance of drafts and writing as a skill. I knew drafts were important from doing history papers, but I always viewed writing as something that was just a talent, that once you learned to write beyond a 5th grade level that was about your skill. But in the class I learned so much about how writing is a skill that we train through routines, through studying masters of the craft, and through targeted practice.

When I think about writing in the classroom I believe that all my students can become confident writers. But we need to dedicate to a routine, targeted practice, and a trust that writing is rarely ever "complete" or "finished"...

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1. I have never enjoyed writing. Growing up, teachers always told me I was good at it, but I always dread it
2. No. I don't write when someone isn't making me
3. Talking at my computer and then editing whatever the voice to text jawn spits out
4. I really don't know where to start with teaching writing. I feel like it's something I should be teaching. It doesn't get me excited to get out of bed every morning, but I would still do it because I feel like it's an important communication skill.

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1. I like writing.
2. No, writer is a job. I am a teacher.
3. Brain Dump
4. I think it is both different and the same. I loved writing and grammar and would love to spend more time teaching writing but feel constricted by my field placement. Once I get my own classroom there will be lots of writing.

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1. I love writing. It is something I have essentially always received praise for throughout all my experiences as a student. I would consider it to be my strongest academic skill, and I frequently write about all sorts of things in a variety of online outlets.

2. I do identify as a writer. In my current outlook, I could not see myself writing a book, but I would enjoy authoring essays or articles at some point.

3. I don't think too much about it. It seems to come naturally to me. One thing I generally keep in mind is to use precise language, and focus heavily on structure and formatting. Just do lots of good reading and it will come naturally, I suppose.

4.  I feel that I'm not sure how to teach writing. I teach students how to format things and apply structure to their work, but the most growth I've witnessed has come directly from reading good evidence and sources and drawing upon that.

Pic: William Lloyd Garrison, one of my favorite authors