We tell ourselves stories in order to live. – Joan Didion

We write to find out what we don’t want to know. — James Baldwin

In-Class Exercises will be posted here on a weekly basis.

Week 1

• On one side of a 4×6 index card, write the autobiography of your life.
• Jo Ann Beard family vacation exercise
• Select a personal object and write the story of that object.
• Select a photograph of yours and tell the story within it.
• Choose a color and write a flash essay through the lens of that color.

Week 2