by SMThornton | Jun 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week I went to a class on being a mentor teacher. I think we’ve all heard statistics about teacher retention- after 5 years of teaching, almost half of all teachers will leave their profession. Yowza. Most jobs have some sort of mentorship program, the idea...
by SMThornton | May 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
Getting published may be the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Writing is hard. Getting published is harder. Take these great writers:1. Martin Luther: Posting the 95 Theses on the castle church gate in Wittenberg, Germany had to be tough decision for Luther. The...
by SMThornton | May 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Writing is a lonely business. I commented to my husband the other day that I felt like Anne Boleyn, banished to the Tower of London. He reminded me that poor Anne’s story didn’t end so well (divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived and all...
by SMThornton | May 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week, I had the opportunity to listen to the mother of Greg Mortensen, author of Three Cups of Tea. Dr. Mortensen came to our high school to talk about her son’s work building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She had two main messages for the students....
by SMThornton | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. ~Ray BradburyI go through spurts where words just pour out of my head onto my laptop screen. Granted, I don’t have a lot of writing time every day, but sometimes things just flow. At the same time, my...
