Creative Writing Syllabus

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Course Outline

Week 1 - Intro to my Class and Ways I can Help You
-My teaching method and intro of everyone
-Get your juices flowing by using the Energy Method
-Create your own writing fuel list
-When Your Writing Even Bores You! (Writer’s Book of Days pg 64)
-Top 10 Excuses (WBD pg 74-75)
-Try Ideas (WBD pg 76)

Week 2 - Exercises Pertaining To Your Life-Open That Door! Exercises due Week 4
-Turn the Soil (WBD pg 79)
-Ten Observations a Day (WTH)
-Walk (WTH)
-Songs to the Everyday (WTH)
-Visual Archaeology (WTH)
-Digging Beneath The Surface (WTH)

Week 3 - Creativity. You Need Your Writing Fuel List for This Week
-Enhancing Creativity with Writing Fuel
-Using a Journal Entry
-Writing Workshop (using Writing Fuel)
-Making Tough Decisions Through Writing - The Rumble Beneath My Feet (WTH You don’t have to share this with the class.)
-Writing Workshop (using Writing Fuel)
-Saying Yes/No to the Muse (WBD pg 94-95)

Week 4 - Beginning Exercises due Week 6
-Incorporating Writing While Out & About (WBD pg 60, 67)
-People Watching Project using The Education of the Eye: Staring (WTH)
-Critic (WBD pg 77)
-Avoiding the Truth (WBD 85)
-Don’t Try to Avoid The Rocks (Writing Toward Home)
-Incarnadine Seas (WTH Due Week 4)

Week 5 - Guidelines to Writing Creatively
-A Writer’s Date (WBD pg 23)
-Fueling Creativity with a Partner (see what you can find out from someone else that you can use in your writing)
-How Can You Tell Imagination is Present? (WBD pg 21)
-Pay Attention/Write From Senses (WBD pg 28-29)
-Snowbound (WBD pg39)
-Authors Share (Anything you want to share-even if it isn’t from this class!)
-Picking Up a Stone (WTH)

Week 6 - Timed Exercises that Help You Silence the Inner Critic Exercises Due Week 8
-Why Time an Exercise?
-Pick a Fear (Playful Ways to Serious Writing pg 58)
-Pick a Letter (PWSW pg 84)
-Loose Lines (PWSW pg 88)
-Pick a Character (PWSW 90-98)
-Get Physical (PWSW pg 102)

Week 7 - Branch Out From Normal Throw your rule book away!
-About Language (WBD pg 50)
-Café Writing (WBD 53)
-Go Deeper (WBD 59)
-Doors and Windows (WBD 62)
-Pick a Line Out of a Novel
-In Wandering Mazes Lost (WBD pg 87)

Week 8 - Who Are You? Due Week 10
-Let Writing Lead The Way (WTH)
-Querencia (WTH)
-Poetry Inside Us All (WTH)
-I Could Not Tell (WTH)
-Layers of History (WTH)
-Digging in the Earth (WTH No due date for this-this is for personal use)

Week 9 - Helping You
-Improving (WBD pg 91)
-Revising (WBD pg 93)
-Writing Cycles (WBD pg 101)
-Being Vulnerable (WBD pg 107)
-Truth Versus Fact (WBD pg 99)
-Honor Yourself as Writer (WBD pg 113)

Week 10 - Share, Share, Share!
-Author’s Share (anything you want!)
-Writing Fuel Topic
-Writing Workshop (Using one thing from this class)
-Writing Fuel Topic
-What did you learn from this class? Has it helped you?

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In this class, students are expected to develop both academically and creatively as writers, so they will be prepared to succeed in college and in their careers. This is an ideal environment for students to polish their writing skills and learn to communicate in a professional and engaging manner.Additionally, this class should be a place that is inviting and comfortable without losing the sense of adventure and spontaneity. I hope that throughout this year this class will became a safe place for students to share their thoughts, feelings and work. orlando singles (http://www.orlandosinglessearch.com)