Writers,
Thank you for submitting posts to our last discussion board. A quick roundup:
Some of you wrote about dinners with enough details to make us all hungry; others wrote about movies and dreams. There is a letter to an entire football team! There are gratitude lists, (including a hats off to teachers willing to write recommendations). A thoughtful exploration of why writing about what we always involves risk. Another writer discusses the painful experience of being bullied.
As these were written in response to the idea of keeping a “Writer’s Notebook,” keep in mind that writing is act of courage. Like Joan Didion suggests, we sometimes write in order to discover what it is we need or have to say. As writers, we write to discover ideas. We don’t know where we’ll end up. (More on that in today’s discussion of poetry.)
The responses you gave each other also were valuable. Writing is very much about listening to and reading what others write. We’ll write more in class today at 2:30 pm! If you haven’t had a chance to post or to respond to another writer’s post, here is the link to the discussion board:
Discussion Board: Writers Notebook Prompt 1
See you at 2:30 pm
