lovelyxmalia
10-21-2007, 02:11 PM
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?
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?