Journal # 36
Come up with a non narrative structural element not readily recognizable to a casual reader of your work but which will generate the sentences which move above the structural elements.

Journal # 37
Go back and look at everything you've written and imagine it as your book of essays. What would go out of the book and what would stay? What would be the unifying element? Find a unifying theme from which you might shepherd these essays toward. Find an original way for you to decide which of your writing selections are most valuable.

Journal # 34
Make the reader feel 'remembered pain.' Describe your first experience with adult physical pain.

Journal # 35
Regain a lost place. Reclaim it through the evocative magic of language.

Journal # 33
Use color as a motif. Don't make it obvious. Make it multidimensional.

Journal Entry # 32
Think of an angle to get into your life. Use a fresh approach that makes your story interesting to others. Create a marketing proposal selling your memoir to a publisher.

Going Out Foreign

Here is the story in PDF format. Download at your leisure.

Journal Entry # 31: Write this class as a Jerry Springer show. Imagine two literary critics with varying viewpoints in such a setting.

Five-Page Critical Paper:
Turn in a critical paper in the next week or so. You may base the paper on some aspect of your presentation. Write something that highlights your critical abilities. Extrapolate an arguement using a critical approach. Take a position and make a point about an issue brought up during our class discussions. (How is a book made? How does a writer develop voice or point of view?)
Take a small or limited topic and tease it; play with it. Make a statement capable of being both believed and doubted. Play on the value and possibility of the topic being disputed.

Journal Entry # 30: Consecrate your own ground by finding a literary ancestor in Ohio. Then write to that person and establish a relationship. We are citizens and need to come to grips with our own identity.