Creative Writing Class -- Welcome!
1. Self-Starter
On a sheet of lined paper -- write a response to the picture projected on the screen. You could write a description, a commentary, a poem, a brief story, or whatever you're moved to write based on that picture. Your response should be about a half-page or so long. Give it a title and today's date.
2014/2015 School Year -- Supplies
The Writing Process
PREWRITING is what you do to get ready to write (draft).
We use PREWRITING to
-- Gather Ideas and Details
-- Focus (narrow) the topic
-- Decide on a tentative organization for the piece
Much of PREWRITING happens before we start to draft (actually write it down), but we often go back to PREWRITING activities when we need more ideas and details, or need more focus, or decide to modify the organization.
We use PREWRITING to
-- Gather Ideas and Details
-- Focus (narrow) the topic
-- Decide on a tentative organization for the piece
Much of PREWRITING happens before we start to draft (actually write it down), but we often go back to PREWRITING activities when we need more ideas and details, or need more focus, or decide to modify the organization.
1) Freewriting: Just start writing and write for about two minutes about anything that comes into your mind. The point is to not stop writing during those two minutes. You're not writing about anything in particular, just whatever comes to mind. If your mind goes blank, just write blank, blank, or something else. This technique will sometimes free up your mind when you have writers' block, or may generate ideas you could write about.
2) Focused freewriting:
roads
Again, you are going to just write for two minutes without stopping. This time, you will focus on one of these words: roads, red, rain. Select one of those words, and write anything that comes to mind about that word during the two minutes. This can help you discover what you know about a subject, or help you think of different ways to look at it.
red
rain
3) Asking questions: Select a subject you know about, then use the newspaper reporter's question words to generate information about that subject. Here's an example:
Baseball:
who: players, coaches, umpires, fans, .
. .
what: play ball! bats, balls, mound, bases, backstop, hot dogs, baseball caps, uniforms,
what: play ball! bats, balls, mound, bases, backstop, hot dogs, baseball caps, uniforms,
. . .
where: arena, field, Wrigley Field, back lot, school,
where: arena, field, Wrigley Field, back lot, school,
. . .
why: fun! money for pros, fun to watch, for the hot dogs, The All-American past time, exercise, get outside
why: fun! money for pros, fun to watch, for the hot dogs, The All-American past time, exercise, get outside
,
when: summertime, night games, day games, weekends, recess, P.E. . . .
when: summertime, night games, day games, weekends, recess, P.E. . . .
Now you pick a topic and list answers to each of the "W's"
another sport a holiday a event a . . . . . .
another sport a holiday a event a . . . . . .
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| This is a sample of a web for prewriting. |
To here: We did not do focused freewriting for "rain." We did not do questions. We did a web for "pain."
Creativity: Used Creative Roads
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