It was wonderful meeting everyone today in person!
Please post your free write on our discussion board before our next class. The link to the discussion board is here: Who are You, Writer? You can edit your writing before you post if you wish, or just post. Remember, you have to be logged into the OpenLab to post.
Resources used in today’s discussion:
- Ta-Nehisi Coates’ video On Creative Breakthroughs
- Joan Didion’s essay about “shimmering memories”: “Why I Write”
- Alyssa Lukats story about the determined 8 year old writer featured in today’s New York Times: “An 8-Year-Old Wrote a Book and Hid it on the Library Shelf. It’s a Hit.”
Remember, finding the creative spark means: we take risks and learn to keep trying to “grow new muscles” and realize potential we didn’t know we had (Ta-Nehisi Coates); trusting and recording those memories that “shimmer” in our memory and writing to find out what we want to say (Joan Didion); we often have creative impulses as children–creativity is “natural” but we get in our own way by deciding the creative impulse is impractical or has no future for us (Lukats).
Write on! Email if you have questions: jsears@citytech.cuny.edu
