por Ersun Warncke | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Helping exceptional students excel Why do some intellectually exceptional students fail to excel?Our hyper-mechanistic, Social Darwinian culture tends to assume — ignoring millennia of evidence — that the race is to the swift and the battle to the strong. Yet we see...
por Ersun Warncke | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Once in a dry season…”This week, Substack has loomed over me like a, well, smokestack. Every time I look up it’s there, towering, casting a shadow.There are plenty of times I feel short on writing inspiration, plenty of times it takes effort to get...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
‘The Weight’ I write an awful lot about writing in this newsletter, but it occurs to me I rarely share my own creative work. So, this week, I’d like to highlight an essay that was published in the literary journal Syncopation. While I trust the writing to...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
How stories shape our worldThe last two books I read were Andrea Dworkin’s debut, Woman Hating and Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks.The conjunction was coincidence — the former had arrived in the post (thanks Awesome Books), the latter had been lurking...
por Ersun Warncke | Abr 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
The secret to successful sentencesOne of the things that overwhelms writing students — especially younger ones — is sheer quantity of options. English is a lexis-rich language whose straightforward grammar allows for endless variations. These facts are the joy and...
