Week 6

Introduction Text for Participants

This is where you get creative. Where you synthesize, or choose.

Resources

• All the stuff you've done before. Your creative material.

Tasks

• Revisit place. Use place for inspiration.
• Synthesize or choose. What compelling story can you pull from all of this?
• Write new, or revise old, based on past critiques, current inspiration, etc. Submit your final draft of no less than six pages, no more than the number of pages you have written in sum.
• review everyone's final draft. one page critiques all around (10-12 MS's)

Discussion Questions

• How did it feel to cut, revise, start afresh, etc.?
• What did you learn about your own creative process?

Additional Resources

• The University of Iowa's List of Creative Nonfiction Literary Magazines: http://www.english.uiowa.edu/nonfiction/LiteraryMagazineReviews.fall05.pdf
  • Works accessible online: http://www.english.uiowa.edu/works/index.html
• Interviews with Writers: http://southeastreview.org/
• Creative works under a CC BY-NC-ND license: http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/arts/writing/entries.php?yr=0203