According to the online class description:
This workshop will help both new and experienced writers explore the elements that go into creating an effective memoir - the storytelling that allows writers to recreate for their readers the events that helped them shape their inner lives and sense of self. Through exercises and assignments, students will tap into their memories and imagination and learn how not only to validate the stories and the themes of their own lives, but how to write vividly about them. We will focus on details, pace and tone, as well as on revision and on the ethics of how to write "truth" when it may have an impact other people's lives. We will also mine a deeper understanding of the craft by reading from a wide range of writers, including Joan Didion, Maxine Hong Kingston, Barbara Kingsolver, John Edgar Wideman, William Zinsser, Tobias Wolfe, James Baldwin and Jamaica Kincaid. In addition to in-class writing, students will be asked to maintain writing journals, participate in workshop discussions and peer review, and write and revise work on a weekly basis.
So don't be surprised if I vet my writing on my blog, or if I use my blog for the journal writing. Regardless, I plan to use my blog to flush out my writing tasks -- either as a medium to work on them or as a place for me to comment on my program. Also, stay tuned because my application essays might show up on my blog for public consumption.
3 comments:
I'm taking a writing course this semester too - we can compare vents! :P
I am sorry to share with you ALT and Eliza that I wasn't able to get into the class. Now there hasn't been any other interesting class open up, so I'm postponing my studies until summer, but I am 1/2 way through my application to the MLA.
Bummer - I finally got into the class that I'm taking this semester (which is also being taught by KW, small world) only after being locked out of it twice before. Keep on truckin'!
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