Mudpit for Significant Event Essay: Building Meaning
How did you react immediately?
How do you feel about it now? If you feel differently about it now, why? What accounts for the difference?
In retrospect, do you wish you’d reacted differently when it happened?
What from the experience do you still carry with you?
Did it change you in any way? If so, what are the effects of that change? In other words, how is the change manifested in your actions or the way you approach the world? (This could allow you to “show” your change instead of just telling the reader about it).
Process Writing for “Describing”
What are three things you learned from this chapter?
What connections can you make between this chapter and other stuff we’ve read or talked about in class?
What are you discovering—about your significant event, about writing, or about yourself as a writer?
What writing challenges are you running up against, and what will you do about them?
What questions about description, or writing in general do you still have?