Beyond Fear: Discovering Your Writing Voice
Fear has a way of crawling into the shadows of our minds, hampering our creative potential and inhibiting our desire to write. We worry about what others will think, whether our words will be good enough, and if our stories are worth sharing. It’s a struggle...
7 reasons to write in English when it’s not your first language
I often work with people who want to write in English even though it’s not their lengua maternal, and they always ask if it’s a good idea. Their English writing skills aren’t as strong as they’d like them to be. They worry they’ll look...
In my deepest fears, writing makes us die
This has been a tough week. Mainly, because it followed a tough week. I had an article published. Bear with me. I know that sounds strange, but this is a story of anxiety. I published in Bright. A place I’ve wanted to publish since I first heard about it. The...
Mr. Mackie’s Classroom: Why South Park Characters Shouldn’t Teach In NYC
In 2010, a school in California banned the dictionary after a student looked up the term oral sex. Funny, right? It would be if this was The Onion, but it’s an all too enlightening example of exactly why I found teaching so frustrating. I was running poetry...About Leigh
I'm a writer and mentor currently living in Argentina. Want to know how I created my ideal writing life?
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