Aspects of a Writer Project: The Writing Life Plan

The Writing Life Plan: An Organizing Principle

Aspects of a Writer

The Writing Life Plan: Getting Started

This assignment overview serves as reference point for a student project rather than as a checklist or outline. This guide is designed to get students thinking about how to represent their habits and plan in relation to the business of a writing life, sustaining an individual writing life, and fostering literary culture more broadly. The culminating Writing Life Plan should reflect the individual student’s ideas for developing fully as the writer that person aspires to be.

The Writing Life Plan should be specific, honest, and feasible. The Writing Life Plan should be useful to now, even as one cannot predict exactly where one will go in five or ten years. It can be updated as constraints make adjustments necessary and as opportunities arise over time.
 

Some Topics to Consider

Some Questions to Consider

Sustaining a Writing Life

The Business Aspect of the Writing Life

Fostering Literary Culture

Some Formats to Consider

The format should encourage implementation and tracking so that it’s useful for the individual writer in meaningful ways over time. As a course assignment, the format should allow for presenting to the class and/or submitting to the instructor.
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