Please post a new piece of writing on YOUR blog inspired by our look at how objects can inspire new thoughts, trigger memories, or provide writing ideas.
Please spend time to come up with at least 500 words (draft directly on Blogger or you can type on Docs for a word count then copy and paste if you want to).
Also: add at least one image (click on the icon on the tool row that looks like a photo--I can show you how, just ask).
Also: add an "Author's Note" at the beginning or end of your post briefly identifying the object/activity that inspired you and bit of your thought process.
Please spend time to come up with at least 500 words (draft directly on Blogger or you can type on Docs for a word count then copy and paste if you want to).
Also: add at least one image (click on the icon on the tool row that looks like a photo--I can show you how, just ask).
Also: add an "Author's Note" at the beginning or end of your post briefly identifying the object/activity that inspired you and bit of your thought process.
Be creative and take this assignment in whichever direction you choose: fiction, narrative, poetry...You may come up with a finished product today or maybe just a good start on something you revisit and finish up over the long weekend or in class Tuesday.
Some options:
- use one of the objects we passed around during class this week (key, lock, giraffe, etc.--check out the comments on the Idea Share post below for lots of ideas)
- use one or several of the objects you cut out of the magazines for your journal
- go back to one of the objects you shared with everyone those first days of class or something someone else shared
- use an idea from the What's in Their Bag? character sketch you created this week
- browse the website Significant Objects for examples of writing connected to objects--you might even find an object there that triggers some writing for you
- you can make a story up or you can write a story that is true
- you could be inspired by a combination of these objects
- the object itself may or may not end up in your writing
When you finish your piece (due at the end of class on Tuesday, 21 January), you can continue to customize your blog page with gadgets in the sidebar, an interesting background, updated profile info, etc. Be sure you've figured out how to add images--they are an important aspect of your blog and will accentuate your writing. I can also show you how to put in links like I did (the pink words above). It's really easy.
Thanks for making class LOVELY so far!
