Week Three — April 14

Understanding the Creative Process

Susan’s inspiring place: Cochise Stronghold, Arizona

Supplemental Readings

Annie Dillard, From The Writing Life

Marianne Krasny, “Al Gore’s Farm”

Alice Walker, “I Am Blue”

Louise Erdrich, “Big Grass”

Lauren Chambliss & David Wolfe, “Getting Over Writers Block”

Suggested Nature Activity

See if you can experience the dissolution of boundaries. In nature. Feel breeze, smells, colors, shapes. Avoid thinking, planning, having a goal, having a question, needing anything to happen.

Preparation for the next meeting

Bring a section of writing — your or someone else’s — that effectively uses metaphor, symbolism, personification, imagery.