Write with your eyes like painters, 
with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers. You are                                     
the truthsayer with quill and torch. 
Write with your tongues on fire.
-- Gloria Anzaldua


We cannot work in isolation, or in fear of other voices.
--Adrienne Rich



The deepest secret in our heart of hearts 
is that we are writing because we love the world.
--Natalie Goldberg 


Words Have Eyes That See 
--Michelle Gibbs

COMPUTER LAB ASSIGNMENT ONE

CHOOSE ONE OF THE PROMPTS BELOW

1. Make a list of historical figures (major is ok but minor is better) that intrigue you in some way. Choose one or two a write a few paragraphs telling all you currently know about them. Then write down what metaphorical possibilities might exist in each character.  Consider using them in a story. You will have to do some research, probably.

2. Take the original writing you did for today.   Describe the story you envision in terms of conflict, crisis, and resolution, and/or connection and disconnection, and/or the check mark structure (series of rising conflicts). Identify areas where your form and structure need to be strengthened, and think of some ways to do it. Then, do it!

3.  Sketch out a story you've been carrying in the back of your mind, listing each scene you envision to advance the story. Write one of the scenes, explaining nothing, telling the story entirely through actions.

4.  Choose one event from your life to write about truthfully, making the details of one scene as realistic as possible.  Then, think of a parallel situation that has the same emotional impact as your real circumstances but is not what happened to you.  Posit a character to whom it could happen, and recraft the scene so it is entirely fictional: different time, place, setting, far removed from the original circumstance that inspired it.

5. Begin a story with "I never told this to anybody, but..."