For this class you will need a physical writer's journal. This journal might be a bunch of loose-leaf papers, or a composition notebook, or a fancy "writer's" journal, or even a digital file you name: My Writing Journal as a Google Doc.
Learn more about keeping a writer's journal (let's see the video below...)
Let's begin our writer's journal with up to 200 words on the following topic in 5 minutes:
1. This is what I love about writing...
2. This is what I am most frustrated about writing...
Then, turn that page. We'll learn a little more about truth in fiction by master writer Neil Gaiman, then, you guessed it! We'll come back to our writing journal with your SECOND writing task. Here it is...
To practice honesty in your writing, choose one of the following moments and write a few paragraphs in your journal about it. As you write, pay attention to your inner register about what you’re writing, noting the particular things that make you uneasy. Try to be a little “more honest than you’re comfortable with.” Remember that being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared; it means you do it anyway.
• A time when you were deeply embarrassed.
• When you regret something you did.
• The saddest moment of your life.
• A secret you are afraid to talk about.
Take the work you wrote above and either read it aloud to someone you trust, or read it alone and pretend that you have an audience. Listen to the way you SOUND and
pay attention to the sensations in your body as you’re reading the difficult moment. Consider what you’re afraid of being judged for, or afraid of saying out loud.
Then write those things down in your journal.
You will not need to turn in this writing exercise, but it SHOULD be written in your writing journal.
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