10: Writers are Mythical, Magical, and Damaged, by Teri Holbrook & Melanie Hundley

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Writers are Mythical, Magical, and Damaged" by Teri Holbrook & Melanie Hundley. It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the authors of the chapter are disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Chapter keywords: workshop, writing as a profession, writing as process, writing lives

Teri Holbrook, a crime fiction writer turned literacy educator, is an associate professor at Georgia State University where she examines how digital technology and arts-based research affect writing—and vice versa. (2017 bio)

Melanie Hundley is a professor at Vanderbilt University where she studies how teachers learn to write digital and multimodal texts. She is a passionate teacher of writing and young adult literature. (2017 bio)

As always, the theme music is "Parade" by nctrnm, and both the book and podcast are licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The full book was published by the West Virginia University Libraries and Digital Publishing Institute; find it online for free at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas.

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