To think, to write....perchance to dream...

The truth is, as a high school English teacher, I cannot teach writing.

I can teach editing. I can discuss (sometimes ad nauseum). I can pose brilliant (or not-so-brilliant) questions in the style of the Socratic Method. I can beg. I can bribe. But to actually learn how to write means one must write...

And that, my friends, is up to the students.