Week 2 Writing about Emotions and Feelings |
Here are suggestions on how to give feedback for autobiographical
narration and sensory impression (from last week).
Click this link for more ideas on the peer review process (from Paula Schiller, 1997)
Here is a piece of performance text to have a look at.
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For Week 2, I want to look at the process by which you write your pieces.
How do you start? Where do the ideas come from? How do you overcome writers' block?
Please take short notes and summarise your group's ideas.
Your task is to write 500 word piece which describes a part of you, or an emotion you have felt (or both). The handout has suggestions, but they are only a guide. We want you to identify an essential part of your psyche and distil this in to 500 words. It could be mildly comic, or deadly serious or somewhere in between.
What makes you tick? What is the most significant part of you? Re-tell an important experience. Describe a close friend. What makes you laugh or cry or get angry?