Creative Writing Workshops

Workshop 1:

Your read and discussed three very different short texts: The Beginning of Paul Auster's Leviathan, two short pieces from Ben Marcus' The Age of Wire and String, and a piece by Borges.

We turned this discussion toward the critique process. For most people, there's a marked difference between the process of reading a published work and a student work-in-progress. Nonetheless, there's something consistent in the ability to describe the experience of reading any text, and that experience is crucial information for the writer in process.

You wrote a short "rewrite" of a text that was read aloud and exchanged these in order to continue some of this critique discussion next week. Please bring those with you on Wednesday.

Creative Writing Assignments

1.You've got a creative writing assignment (20 rituals) that's due at the end of week 2. For this, you'll come up with 20 elements of a ritual for the act of writing. You'll repeat that same creative ritual 4 times over 4 days. We want to see the list of 20 ritual elements and the writing that results.