Expectations for Writing Workshop

Find topics and a purpose to write – that matters to YOU, to your life, to who you are and who you want to be.
Try new topics, purposes, audiences, genres, forms and techniques.
Make your own decisions about what is working and needs more work in pieces of writing. Be the “First Responder” to your writing.
Recognize that reader’s eyes and minds need your writing to be conventional in format, spelling, punctuation, and usage.
Attempt professional publication and/or enter writing contests.
Produce a plethora of finished and unfinished writing.
Listen to, ask questions about, and comment on other’s writing in ways that help them move the writing forward.
Take a deliberate stance toward writing well.
Establish and work toward significant, relevant goals for yourself as a writer.
Work as hard in writing workshop as I do. Recreate happy times from your life, work through sad times, discover what you know about a subject and learn more, convey information and request it, parody, petition, play, explore, argue, apologize, advise, sympathize, imagine, look and look again, express love, show gratitude, and make money!

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