Drog for Teachers
Drog for Teachers
1. Activities before reading You Will Call Me Drog
2. Themes to discuss during and after reading
3. Metaphors to explore in You Will Call Me Drog
4. Activities after reading You Will Call Me Drog
5. Discussion questions by chapters click here
1. Activities before reading You Will Call Me Drog
2. Themes to discuss during and after reading
3. Metaphors to explore in You Will Call Me Drog
4. Activities after reading You Will Call Me Drog
5. Discussion questions by chapters click here
My Dog Has Flies
My Dog Has Flies
My Dog Has Flies
Sue Cowing
Poet & Author
Stories
Years ago as I was writing poetry, I kept having ideas for stories and ignoring them. I even gave one idea away to a fiction-writer friend, who wrote it (adding her own twists of course) and sold it to Redbook magazine for $1,000. I was happy for her but felt as though I had given away a dream, so I started paying more attention to my story ideas.
Dorothea Brande, in a wonderful old book called On Becoming a Writer, describes a writing method that seems more appropriate for writing fiction than poetry, so I decided to try it with a short story. After weeks of the kind of preparation she outlines in her book, I sat down and wrote that story in one four-hour session, and it was full of surprises for me. The biggest surprise was when I sent the story, “My Old Girl,” to a magazine competition, and it won the $1,000 grand prize!
Now I write both poetry and fiction. My stories have appeared in Negative Capability,Cricket and Spider magazines, and in The Honolulu Advertiser. You can read some of them here: