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Assignment - Daily Regimen as A Writer Essay

Description - Goals -

1. Describe your history with writing and identify the genres in which you've worked.

2. Evaluate your skillset when it comes to writing toward specific requirements and specific audiences.

3. Describe your current sense of your strengths and weaknesses.

Prompt - Write a 400-500 word response in which you describe yourself as a writer. Your response can be a single paragraph or more than one paragraph. It should use complete sentences, and In this class, our goal will be to think about what it means to write in a speculative fashion. To give you some jumping off points, here are three areas to think about, along with some guiding prompts to get your speculation started:

Writing On Spec: Writing on spec means "on speculation." This is what it means to write something with the intent to sell it, but without being paid in advance. How has your writing work typically been assigned and/or valued in the past? Have you ever had your writing published? Have you ever written for an audience or a particular venue? How do you view your writing? Is it work? Is it free play? Do you have a process? Tools? What skills and forms of work do you usually associate with your writing practices and process? Is there anything you'd like to change about your workflow or process?

Writing To Spec: This means writing "to specification." When we write for an audience, we're delivering a kind of product, (if I can use that expression without all the trappings of commercialism). What is your experience writing within the constraints of a specific genre? What about a specific wordcount? Have you ever written for a particular venue, or been asked to use a particular style or format? Have you ever had to write for a specific set of conventions in addition to a general style or syntax?

Writing Toward Spec: Okay, this last expression I made up. Think of it as "writing toward the speculative"--do you ever write in an imaginative, hypothetical, counterfactual, or experimental fashion? If so, what do those terms mean to you? Think of that last one: experimentation. When you choose to experiment, what do you experiment with? What are the rules or procedures of your writing experiments, if you have any? What kinds of rules do you feel you must follow, and what rules do you feel comfortable breaking?