5 Ways to Force Yourself to Edit Your Novel

So you’ve written that rough draft.   Now what?   For one thing, it’s probably chock full of errors, plot holes, character inconsistencies and plenty of other grammatical problems.  I’m sure if you begin to read through it you will see them, glaring out from the page like the misshapen and malformed creatures from a

Feeding Squirrels: Taking AP Students to Do Research at a College Library

Yesterday I took my AP students to the University of Oklahoma Bizzell Library to do research for their critical perspectives paper.  Their assignment is to read a canonized novel of their choosing and then write an analytical research paper viewing that text through a critical lens (i.e. Marxist, Feminist, New Historical). Each year I take a group