English @ SUNY Geneseo | Rachel Renders | Group Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/rachelr1223/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Rachel Renders is a member. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 90d50d3003e7c4dc34d2eab876787883 Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post My New Writing Friends in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6769/ Mon, 08 Aug 2016 02:48:49 -0500 Being abroad with twelve other people is amazing. It forces you make friends in way you usually don’t: being trapped together. This trip had an extra twist: we got to write together too. But I don’t want to was […]

]]> 0 f4e78b8ad11f141ba6aa52da5ca45468 Ryan Gulbransen wrote a new blog post in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6768/ Sun, 07 Aug 2016 21:09:15 -0500 I like to consider myself as someone who does not have many fears. Yes there are some things I am genuinely terrified of, but other things that make me uneasy or on edge I like to try and overcome. Horses have […]

]]> 0 bf6bc072c3082d072979fb553123f1e2 Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post The Rock Library: Sam Schacht, Noah Coates, and Elizabeth Pellegrino in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6767/ Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:06:42 -0500 A warehouse of stone and metal houses a collection of historical value oft overlooked.  Filing cabinets extend along the length of the one-room library in fourteen rows, not counting those running along the outer […]

]]> 0 9855a51e8814bf19d72c6b5f7c559529 Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post Risk, Reward: Hekla By Allison Bargabos, Ryan Gulbransen, Nicole Logrieco and Rachel Renders in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6766/ Sun, 07 Aug 2016 17:21:29 -0500 Rubbing tired eyes, I move though my apartment after a long night’s rest. While sunlight warms my back,  I turn to pour cereal into a bowl when I hear an announcement come over the news. “For those just tuning it […]

]]> 0 d7bc44bf83eb293cd85a9f0d84e79fc4 Noah Zweifel wrote a new blog post The Tuya: By Tim Blomquist, Mark Ling, Emily Hanss and Noah Zweifel in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6765/ Sun, 07 Aug 2016 04:56:37 -0500 Maria drove the Durango across the rocky Icelandic plain toward the mountain in the distance. She inspected it through her windshield as she approached.  It wasn’t especially large, but its top was unusually fl […]

]]> 0 53b776a6037ea5f7ea90054a4fd672bf Emily Hanss edited the blog post Transformation in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6764/ Sat, 30 Jul 2016 21:33:04 -0500 Over the course of our three weeks in Iceland, we had countless discussions about what makes good writing as we sat in untraditional “classrooms” covered in moss and rock. One of the topics that we touched on frequently is that effective creative writing includes some sort of transformation. In order to engage a reader, there must be a change or…[Read more]

]]> 0 9bf4404c647b40bb63f379d5605dec58 Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post Sounds of Writing in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6763/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:37:34 -0500 New Oxford American Dictionary:
Write: (no obj.) have the ability to mark down coherent letter or words.
Writing and words have a strong association, being that writing is made up of words thrown together to […]

]]> 0 050e63e1645a98ded1476a623ee42b18 Noah Zweifel edited the blog post An Ocean Between Us in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6761/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:23:40 -0500 The Republican National Convention has been underway for four days now.

I had to Google that. I set out to write a fairly BS’d post about the chaos of American politics and how it relates to the chaos of other countries’ politics and then tie it all together in some really deep and meaningful way and thought that would have been a decent…[Read more]

]]> 0 f79b8039bfc04b3f03555c42886087ef Timothy Blomquist wrote a new blog post Get Out There in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6760/ Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:21:50 -0500 Sometimes you just need to get out there.

Especially when you’ve spent the last four months in a writer’s block-induced fury. You wrestle with the typical writer’s struggle–the need to constantly improve–and […]

]]> 0 4d9f02c1f47f7504e9b75bcaf823a7c8 Nicole Logrieco wrote a new blog post From Hot to Cold and All the In-Between in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6758/ Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:03:21 -0500 In twenty-four hours I went from swimming in a pool, to walking on a glacier.  In twenty-four hours I went from wearing a tank top and thin sweater shirt to three layers and a winter-time beanie. Within two hours […]

]]> 0 4e8e5e5734f57af634127528f71846ce Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Plot, enclosure, fishpond in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6755/ Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:13:48 -0500 Five minutes into writing for this prompt, and I’m thinking about fish tanks instead of place. So let’s talk about fish tanks. Wikipedia, the origin for most of my CNF inspiration, prefers to call fish tanks aqu […]

]]> 0 44d1652d0e8fa705f99773eefef4b782 Emily Hanss wrote a new blog post Writing and Place in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6754/ Mon, 04 Jul 2016 16:29:30 -0500  
     When I think about writing and place, I think about a change in place. Some of the times when I have been most inspired to write were when I was experiencing a new place. Our surroundings have a signi […]

]]> 0 c5d707cb3a8413f9799cc84b7a92edb6 Emily Hanss joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6752/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 19:16:17 -0500 0 a391a826b67afe7e4128d5914e915d56 Ryan Gulbransen wrote a new blog post "Why does place matter to my writing?" in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6751/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 19:01:06 -0500                     

Place carries a strong influential factor with it. The context of a place can change the decisions we make about many aspects of our daily life. Consider the two images above, each place […]

]]> 0 4a370f3c49f85e674901620888c1f087 Noah Zweifel wrote a new blog post The Significance of Place in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6750/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 18:26:11 -0500 Place is typically defined as a point or position in space. Obviously, place is all around us. It is the backdrop of our existence. So if place expands infinitely and connects each of us, what separates this place […]

]]> 0 f90ccdfea32ea352e6d9009e3d883232 Noah Zweifel joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6749/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 18:25:00 -0500 0 ab7451d96c29b559333ceabc66b97688 Ryan Gulbransen joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6748/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 17:54:53 -0500 0 302fa1904e3d933441eac36ece698086 Nicole Logrieco edited the blog post Why Place Matters to My Writing in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6745/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 16:41:34 -0500 The same walls, the same faces, the same everything, day in and day out, all equates to the same writing.  With no change in environment or with no new concepts or ideas flooding in, it is hard to create something new.  This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can easily lead to repetition. Sure some places, cities, for instant with their h…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3ec6f067d7737c106bc14d44786951a Rachel Renders wrote a new blog post why does place matter to my writing in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6744/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:46:45 -0500 Why does place matter to my writing. Because all writing has a place. The place you wrote, the place the writing brings you, the place the writing sits while waiting to be read. Place is what allows you to write […]

]]> 0 debdf9ccb9b2aa5eb1aee59fbd66074f Sam Schacht wrote a new blog post Why Place Matters in Writing in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6742/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 12:46:10 -0500  

While looking for a little bit of inspiration for this first blog post, I simply googled the terms “place” and “writing” separately to see what might come up. “Place,” obviously, came up with pictures of […]

]]> 0 26ebcd7eb51c3f22e806ddbb1d80c3b3 Sam Schacht joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6740/ Sun, 03 Jul 2016 04:52:11 -0500 0 c183de42ac1c8e3492988276e885e34d Rachel Renders joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6737/ Fri, 01 Jul 2016 20:57:34 -0500 0 5d3d29b45e674e3100b5595e251c3c4f Mark Ling joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6734/ Fri, 01 Jul 2016 15:45:18 -0500 0 031ab8d87596c107bdb276dcde598685 Timothy Blomquist joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6731/ Wed, 29 Jun 2016 22:48:30 -0500 0 75bfd524140cf8b6f1206c55430c207b Nicole Logrieco joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6726/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:20:54 -0500 0 350e419f51cca34e023e858cecf552d8 Lytton Smith edited the blog post Heima in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6725/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:36:51 -0500

One way to situate yourself abroad is to start to live in the language of the place to which you’re headed.

Check out this great, if sporadic, blog from a group called The Department of Iceland Things, based in a harbor workspace not far from where we’re staying.

In their entry on heima, the Icelandic word for home, where they muse:…[Read more]

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