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ENG 131, CREATIVE WRITING
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JOURNAL WRITING Keeping a journal is a fine way to keep the machinery oiled! A journal allows you to grow comfortable with putting your feelings, ideas, observations into words. It can become a resource to mine for poems, stories, scripts. It may be that you are just filling pages from day to day but when the real inspiration comes, you will be ready, journal at hand and a comfortable habit of writing making you ready to record the real thing--that truly creative moment! On line Blogs have become a major part of the internet. You may wish to establish your own web presence as an increasing number of professionals and just ordinary folk record even their most intimate feelings and doings for a general audience. Just search "blog" and you will find hundreds of listings. Here's a directory of blogs you can just Google the word "blog" or go to: Blogmonster organized by title, topic, and author name, age, gender, birthday, and location. Category: Weblog Directories www.globeofblogs.com For your on-line course, a journal is an extra credit option. You can record your feelings to a file and date each entry. At the end of the term you will have the option of emailing me at least a sampling from your journal. Of course you may wish to keep your writing private, in which case I will try the honor system as for your reporting how many entries and how regularly you wrote them. Or, I may wind up receiving a lengthy file from you with as many entries as days in our semester! If you write, the journal need not be polished. Rather, just let your feelings flow. I won't expect proofreading or revision in the extra-credit journal. So limber up your fingers and write your brains out! Note: Here's an interesting link that combines writing a journal and dialog writing! You may be able to put your two tasks together. Double credit! Take a look: www.writingthejourney.com/exercises/dialog.htm |
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Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Dr. David B. Axelrod
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