Art & Fear, Part 1

Is there a particular statement in the first half of Art & Fear that especially speaks to you? Which one? Why?

Please respond by noon Monday, Feb. 2.

Writing Routines

Do you have a writing routine? Go to the link "Writing Routines" below. Read a few descriptions by authors of their writing routines. Now briefly describe your own. If you don't have a routine, do you see any advantages in developing one? Please respond before noon Thursday.

Riis's Pieces

From whose point of view is "Abe's Game of Jacks" primarily told? (Mark on the handout the places or passages where this point of view is evident.). What other points of view come into play in the story? (Mark and label these as well.)Please respond before noon on Monday.

Goals & Objectives

Describe in a well-written paragraph your biggest or most important goal for your writing this semester. What is it you wish to work on or improve in relation to your writing? How do you propose to accomplish that?

The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Please remark before we return from spring break on which of Bukowski's observations on writers and writing resonante most with you and why. If you wish, you can also comment on his writing style, which has been widely admired and imitated.

A Hanging

George Orwell's journalistic essays have been described as having a "you-are-there" documentary feel. Identify at least one technique or characteristic of his writing in "A Hanging" that, in your own opinion, contributes to this effect. See Orwell link below for further insight.

Art & Fear

Is there a particular statement in Art & Fear that especially speaks to you? Which one? Why?