10.5: Final Exercises

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Chapter 10.4: final exercises

exercise 1: ugly.

Create something ugly. Take a selfie with it and show it to your class/classmates/teacher. Then try to explain the ugly thing to us.

exercise 2: artist’s statement.

Create an artist's statement. Use the following questions when writing about your own work throughout this semester…

What do you want to say about your work?
What’s the most important thing you have learned? What insights have you gained into the practice and art of creative writing?
What do you wish you had learned that you didn’t?
Have your goals as a writer changed? What would you write if you had the time and talent to write anything? Will you?
What have you learned about your writing habits?
Do you see yourself as part of a writing community? Do you prefer to work in isolation, focusing on the work, and reading?
What’s the most important thing you learned about getting and giving feedback about work in progress?
What techniques, authors, or exercises have been most useful to you?
What authors do you want to read now? Has that changed since the beginning of the semester? Why? Do you have writer role models?
What’s your best piece from the semester?

exercise 3:

What would be the most creative way to reflect upon a creative writing semester? Whatever you think that might look like, do that for this exercise.