Learning Objectives:

• To develop an early understanding of the course and its requirements.
• Discuss and examine the main ingredients/reasons of why someone writes.
• Research techniques : open questions – effective questions
• To begin thinking about the essential parts of a story and in particular character.
• Why we write.

Class rules and blogging:

-Group Rules: what we all expect from each other as WRITERS and what we need from each other as writers.

-Blogging & Blogs/WordPress : weekly record of the work.

-How to use your journal/blog: what we did, how we did it, why we did it. Be creative!

ADD MULTI-MEDIA EXAMPLES ETC, PLUS ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRY/PUBLISHED EXAMPLES THAT IMPACT YOUR WORK.

What is writing?

*To end loneliness

*To have fun

*To keep a hold on life

*To unload

*To leave a legacy

*To evoke the past & present

*To learn something

*To think more coherently

*To keep from going crazy

*To make a home

*To discover, to uncover

 

 

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton