Week Two Creative Writing Reading Assignment
This week's reading takes us from a chapter on how to make your writing more vivid to a general chapter on how to approach poetry--and you will put into practice all that you read, from week to week.
You will want, too, to read carefully and use in your discussion threads specific quotations from the reading by way of illustration.
And the class notes will help you--but these rather extensive notes do not replace texts.
As you will discover throughout this term, all these chapters about using emphatic language and experimenting with various rhetorical tools apply to all your writing. And I mean all, from penning post cards to friends to relating a humorous incident on Face Book.
For this week, please read the following materials:
The Creative Writing Guide:
Chapter Three: "Writing with Detail," 4--57
Chapter Four: "The Vision of Poetry," 62-87
Road Trip:
"Don Welch," 38-56
"Eamonn Wall," 168-179
Read the current poem for discussion; and take a look in the archive as well--download what you like.
Look at a particular poem and in the Discussion Threads make connections with the class readings and discussions.
Again, take the time necessary to do all the reading, for you will put the material to use in both the Discussion Threads and your written assignments.
As you did last week, pay particular attention to what this week's poets write and to what they have to say about writing.
Consider their comments in the context of what you read the first week and continue to digest this week.
Each writer, you will note, approaches writing in a different manner; all also share, on the other hand, a good deal in common. Among other things this term, you will develop specific habits, ones that will continue to help all your writing long after this class concludes.
And be sure to consult this week's video on the Class Blog, Creative Writing Fever .
Be sure as well to read about Netiquette.
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