How to habits, spaces, beliefs, and technologies shape what it means to be a writer? Maya Angelou wrote in the mornings. Steven King assigned himself the task of completing six pages every day. Haruki Murakami committed to swimming and running before starting work. Even more recently, writers like Vauhini Vara have investigated how AI technologies could shape their process. In this course, we will explore how a range of writers and scholars have practiced and conceptualized the work of writing. We will also experiment with adopting and evaluating these habits, routines, and strategies for ourselves. Course assignments and projects will prompt students to explore their own writing process, and to consider what it means to be a writer in a changing technological context. [AH, W]
- Enseignant: Alicia Brazeau