**This challenge is all about QUANTITY!** Let’s get those word counts up, so we can see what happens. (I wasn’t sure how to categorize this, so for now it’s just listed in [[all the assignments]].) - Write every day. - Choose a daily word count that will honestly challenge you—I recommend at least 750 words a day, but if that’s easy for you, go for more. - Write anything at all, as long as it’s not _complete_ nonsense. - “Keep the pen moving” (or keyboard, or thumbs, or whatever). Don’t stop to edit or censor yourself; push your personal envelope of how MUCH you can write every day. You can always go back to pick and choose and revise later if anything intriguing comes up (and if you genuinely follow these instructions, something probably will). - Towards the end of the week, include a brief reflection on how it went for you—did anything interesting happen? Any fortuitous surprises, aka serendipity? Did you come away with some words that you might want to use for something else? _Did you learn anything?_ - If you wish, share your favorite parts of your output from this experiment in a discussion topic in class! ##### Suggestions for if you get stuck and aren’t sure what to add to your pile o’ words: - **Invent a character.** You might start by observing people—at the park, at the supermarket, at the library, in a magazine—really watch people (but not in a creepy way). Choose someone interesting, then, do your best to create a character profile for this person. Who are they? Where do they come from? What do they do? What is their story? You could write in first person if that helps the development grow naturally. Then write from that character’s point of view. - Start out with plain old journal writing, but feel free to deviate from the mundane — make stuff up; add new details that weren’t there before; change the subject mid-paragraph or mid-sentence. - Write in public and just note down everything you see and everything it makes you think of. - Write *to* or *for* someone (real or fictional, alive or dead, in your life now or in your life in the past — or future) - [[Describe the heck outta something]]. - Choose a random prompt or riff on something we started in one of our live classes. ---- <small>Here is a [general “T1: Communication” rubric](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LW7dUKM6UrD7mZJq9tVY0s5EevcxamKi0rwE__ctCys/edit?usp=share_link) for this kind of assignment. The [standards](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G-ffffPuAtCboosZgrsnNehrBqqzRyL4_HrzhlfPRN0/edit?usp=sharing) that probably fit the best include _W.11-12.5 Develop and strengthen writing (collaboratively and individually) as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience;_ and _L.11-12.1b. Develop communicative competence by effectively determining and appropriately responding to the language demands of varied situations; c. Develop metacognitive awareness as writers and speakers._</small>