Isn’t it pathetic?? Because I let too much time go by between postings, I never get fully comfortable with Word Press.? And then I let even more time go by.? Nothing worse than stale blog.? Worse than leftover salad.
For instance,? one friend complained that I spent a lot of time writing about my son’s illness – but then almost nothing about his restored health.? That says something about the relative levels of motivation inspired by dread and fear vs. the delight that “everything is back to normal,” which is just not the stuff of great writing.? Not for me, anyway.
So I’m recruiting a co-editor.? In this week’s Macaulay Monday, our weekly email to students, I’m lobbing in a request for a student co-editor to help me keep this blog fresh and interesting.? Having never collaborated as a writer, I’m sure that I will find this a learning process.
I’m looking for someone who writes well — and understands that writing online is different.? Who will raise his/her eyebrows at Word Press requirements and blow past all the silly stuff that stymies me.? Who will help me think about my radically different audiences — students, friends, family, readers of Sala’s Gift, people who are interested in things that are interesting to me — and figure out how to balance our postings.? Who can keep his/her ear to the Macaulay ground and make sure we celebrate all the fabulous achievements of our students.? Who also finds technology fascinating, especially where it converges with literature and learning.
This will be a rotating position, probably for a month or two.? The student will be named, i.e., no ghost writer.? I figure that we’ll meet once in a while, email a lot (phone is my least favorite way to communicate), especially in the beginning.
I’m asking for interested students to send me an email with a sample blog posting, and also to include a link to their blog or eportfolio.? I figure the kind of student I’m looking for has a blog AND an eportfolio.
It’s quite possible that nobody will be respond.? I’ll be sad.? And then I’ll go back to leftover-salad-blogging.