Writing Territories

What stuff is your stuff?

Aims & Procedure

Why are we doing this?• Good writing and great fiction comes from writing about

things that love

• To improve your writing selections

How will the exercises work?• Definitions

• Examples

• Create your own territories

• Share

Writing Territories

The meta-list or profile:This writing profile is a list of interests, wants, desires, likes, dislikes, things you love, events that have changed you, confusing concepts, and ideas that fuel you as a writer.

Things to Consider:

Memories (early, earlier, recent)

Obsessions

Problems

Dreams

Understandings

Confusions

Sorrows

Risks

Accomplishments

Family (close & distant)

Worries

Friends

Risks

Places

Favorite objects

Loves

My Writing Territories

Chasing Hamlet

State Speech - SAHS

State Wrestling

Moving every four years

Supt. Dad

Working in business

The family business

Doomed sport teams

Blogs

Kindergarten carpet

Black clothing

Freshman Lear

Gotta-have-it tech

English family

Live music

Telling stories

Columbine listening

For her

Your Stuff

To begin-

• Turn to your starting page in your Writer’s notebook

• Fill the page with your Writing Territories

• Pick 10 that you feel comfortable talking about

Things to Consider:

Memories (early, earlier, recent)

Obsessions

Problems

Dreams

Understandings

Confusions

Sorrows

Risks

Accomplishments

Family (close & distant)

Worries

Friends

Risks

Places

Favorite objects

Loves