Writing Workshop

20 Novembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students finished presenting their analyses of Frank O'Connor's First Confession.

Following this, TP2 carried out their Writing Workshop.  

Exercise 1 of the Writing Workshop: Free Writing 

• For the next five minutes, you will have to write non-stop. 
• You must not take your pen off the paper and you must not stop writing until the bell goes off. 
• When you don’t know what to write, just keep writing the last word you wrote over and over again until new words or sentences come to mind. 
• It doesn’t matter how often you write the word over and over again. 
• If you make a mistake, don’t scratch it out – keep writing. 
• You can write about anything. 
• What you write about doesn’t have to make sense – it can be abstract. 
• No one will see this writing – it is just for you. 
• There is no right or wrong in this exercise – it is just for you. 

Exercise 2 of the Writing Workshop: Free Writing with Focus

• For the next seven minutes, you will have to write non-stop. 
• You must not take your pen off the paper and you must not stop writing until the bell goes off. 
• When you don’t know what to write, just keep writing the last word you wrote over and over again until new words or sentences come to mind. 
• It doesn’t matter how often you write the word over and over again. 
• If you make a mistake, don’t scratch it out – keep writing. 
• You will take a sentence or section of the previous text and write another text inspired by that extract. You can write about anything. 
• What you write about doesn’t have to make sense – it can be abstract. 
• No one will see this writing – it is just for you. 
• There is no right or wrong in this exercise – it is just for you. 

Exercise 3 of the Writing Workshop:  Focused Writing

• You have 20 minutes to write a: 
• short story OR 
• diary entry OR 
• memoir OR 
• letter OR 
• abstract piece

…based on one or more of the following images: (images cannot be included in summary).

(P.S. No one needs to see this – it’s just for you.  But you can share it with the class if you want to!)

Exercise 4 of the Writing Workshop:  Free Writing to Music

• Write a piece to this piece of music:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiexQiHWDqc
  
• You have the duration of the piece to write it. 
• It can be anything:
• A (love or hate) letter; 
• A short story; 
• A poem; 
• A piece of abstract writing;
• etc.
  
• No one is going to see it – but you can always share it! 

• Write a 250-300 word composition based on ONE of the following topics: 
• Write about an experience that made you very happy. 
• What do you really want to change about your life? How could you do it? 
• If I were invisible, I would… 
• Write about a time when you found it difficult to forgive someone. 
• What is your biggest fear? –What does getting old mean to you?