Final Evaluation Conference

POETRY PORTFOLIOS Just a reminder, you need to hand me a PAPER version of your poetry portfolio by 5:00 p.m. this Friday (the 9th). Remember to include a narrative reflection (you can also, of course do that as hypertext on your blog) and a reading-as-a-writer piece as well as all of the regular assignments. FINAL [...]

Creating a link to a Blogpost entry

As you write your hyptertext reflections, you’ll want to create links right to specific entries as you discuss them.  To do that: 1.  Highlight the word in your text (in your reflection) you want to serve as the link to the entry. Say, you have written the following sentence, ” I am thrilled to be [...]

For Fiction Writers

I have created a new menu item on the lefthand sidebar: “For Fiction Writers” with links to some helpful sites. Please add via comments! What are your favorite online fiction sites? Also, I have listed all of your presentation dates up on the presentation tab.

Updates–Fiction Syllabus Online

You can now find UNIT THREE  in the menu above, including examples from your tutors terrific. Please make sure you read through the page and let me know if you have any questions. Also, I have steadily been adding to our Places Readers Go list on the upper left sidebar. Please add more sites in [...]

Syllabus Update

I’ve added the reading for Thursday, Tuesday and next Wednesday to the unit overview. Make sure you consult the unit plan itself for details. Also, I will be giving you a fun assignment over break having to do with stranger studies spun into 200-word flash fictions, and some reading. I’ll post the fiction syllabus next [...]

Looking Ahead to Creative Nonfiction

Take a look at UNIT TWO and be ready to ask questions on Thursday.

Link to the Blog Conversation with Filmmaker John Bresland and How-to for the

If you’re interested in reading the discussion Abishek had with  The Seinfeld Analog filmmaker, John Bresland, over J-term,  check out his post. For those of you thinking about creating a hypertext piece on your blog, you might want to explore the resources mentioned on wikipedia. Look closely, too, at the hypertext pieces I assigned for [...]

Groups for Unit One

Enjoy a creative weekend filled with writing games! And if anyone has suggestions for exercises we might want to do on the blogs, please post them to the Motherblog. You will be hearing from Maddie, Katie or Alex about meeting with them in one-on-one conferences this coming week to talk about the course and your [...]

Opening the Course

Welcome… …to the Spring 2008 Intro to Creative Writing Blog (bg’s section)! This marks the sixth year I’ve used blogs in this course; every year they change a bit, as do the unit plans, the readings, the exercises, but with the exception of the first blog (which vanished into the netherworld when platforms were switched), [...]