Week 10 Creative Work
WRITE WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO WRITE
Prose writers: WRITE a chapter of your novel, or a stand-alone story, of 1,200 words or
more. (That’s about 4 double-spaced pages.) Push yourself to explore something of
genuine interest to you – don’t go for the bland, easy project, but try the difficult scene,
the potentially revealing story, the material that is more exciting and maybe scary to write
about. I’m looking for detailed scenes, not a general overview or outline. Stay with the
characters and what they are doing, saying, and feeling.
It’s your story – what do you really want to say?
Poets: At least 50 lines of poetry that really says something. That could be one long
poem, three sonnets plus something else, a whole lot of haiku, or several free-verse
experiments. Use images. Explore territory that is exciting, surprising, different – don’t
write about safe topics, don’t write a predictable poem. You can write about anything, in
your own life or in the world we live in or in the entire Kosmos of material and
conceptual realities –a hive full of dead bees, a memory of reading to your sister when
she was three, the dark matter in the universe, the meaning of justice.
They are your poems – what do you really want to say?
This is due on Monday, March 12.
Also post to share with your Animal group by March 12.