This truly beautiful poem by the Sufi poet known popularly as Rumi is about the creative process and being awake enough to NOTICE our surroundings. What do you think Rumi means by the door being “round and open.” Some students have suggested this is the open eye. What does Rumi mean by being “awake”? Do […]
Joan Didion, “Why I Write”
In “Why I Write” essayist and fiction writer Joan Didion discusses how she became a writer to discover what was already in her mind. She suggests, provocatively, that some things and memories have shimmering qualities. These “shimmering” qualities, if we recognize them, identify stories that need to be told. According to Didion, good sentences also […]
ENG 1141: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 1141 COURSE UNITS Unit 1: On Developing a Creative Habit Didion, Joan. “Why I Write” Jalal al-Din Rumi, “Don’t Go Back to Sleep” Tan, Amy. Where Does Creativity Hide? (TedTalk) On Keeping a Writer’s Notebook Baldwin, James. Paris Review Interview: No. 78 Butler, Octavia. “Furor Scribendi” Didion, Joan. “On Keeping a Notebook” Hemingway, Ernest. Paris […]
