ENG 107 Chapter 1: Chapter One

• School: University of Kentucky
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 107
• Professor: Andrew Milward

Document Summary

~ chapter one: an invitation to the writer ~ You : people begin learning to write as soon as they"re born. Not literally, of course, by tabbies learn to use: writing tend to cause unnecessary panic, but writing won"t hurt you; it"s your birth right to write. tone to express themselves and the learning never stops. Indulge in your first drafts and then write against yourself in revisions: play before you work. Imaginative writing assumes you"ll do this: genre has two meanings, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, etc, romance, detective, western, etc, the overarching idea is to play, try things out. As with everything else, a writer"s skill grows with: authors are beginning to blur the lines and make brand new combinations. practice. And your journal : keep a journal and write anything and everything you want in it, you never know where an idea might come from, suggestions for your journal, using the world.