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Monday 10 June 2024 After last week’s hectic and emotionally challenging revisions, I found myself completing the revision of BOOK 5.  I removed significant portions of it.  I like its current status; however, the concluding paragraph, I think, will need an additional revision session.  I need to see how BOOK 6 turns out before I […]

Monday 3 June 2024 This fourth entry for THE REVISION DIARIES series traces a difficult week while revising my Katyn manuscript.  Reviewing the daily entries found below, I’m not sure if I fully convey the struggles I encountered while working on BOOK 5.  Last night while reflecting on today’s blog, I decided that once I

Monday 27 May 2024 This third installment of THE REVISION DIARIES reveals the writing difficulties while finishing FADING OUTRO. Once I resolved the dilemmas that made the completion so emotionally challenging, I completed it. Mailed a print-out of FADING OUTRO to King Arthur. Worked next on my Katyn visit–one of the so-called “Everest moments,” as

Monday 20 May 2024 This second installment of THE REVISION DIARIES again focuses on the writing process of FADING OUTRO, the so-called Afterward that King Arthur suggested I write.  Excellent progress: daily writing.  I wrestled with what exactly the theme of FADING OUTRO should be; but as I continued to free write, the realization dawned

Monday 13 May 2024 I started revising my Katyn manuscript. During the past week, I worked on the so-called “Afterward,” new written content. Motivated by King Arthur’s suggestion that I provide some kind of epilogue or postscript, I found myself writing new material but also revising blog drafts I decided were better suited for the

Tuesday 07 May 2024 Dear Student: Over the years, several students have asked for my guidance concerning reading additional books.  And in the past, I had prepared a stock, typical list of titles—or, at least, I had considered that reading list to be stock because I thought other professors or teachers would select the very

Monday 06 May 2024 I just finished grading my students’ Paper Two Assignment, the War Class’s significant researched-argumentative essay.  All that now awaits me is the Final Exam, which is scheduled late during the Finals calendar, and so I must wait—not only for the Final to be over but to begin the Revision of my

Monday 29 April 2024 The first time a student asked me, “Professor, Why Don’t We Read ‘__’” was toward the end of the Fall 2013 semester.  The college course was “The Holocaust.”  Preparing students for their final exam which focused solely on Primo Levi’s The Drowned and the Saved, I allotted six class meetings to

Monday 22 April 2024 During our recent video conference call, King Arthur and I were discussing my manuscript revision plan and calendar.  I still have several weeks left to teach and must wait for the semester to end so that I can begin the serious revision work for the Katyn manuscript.  “I’m chomping at the

Monday 15 April 2024 “Professor, how much longer can you teach this war class?  After today’s lesson, I feel… I feel… depressed.  If you teach this stuff all the time, how could you not also feel depressed?  You must feel worse depression than I do.  You must.  Now I understand what you told us at