An entry on writing

I'm taking English 817 with Jane Gallop this semester. This course requires a writing journal component, "Each student will keep a journal, writing down reflections about her experience writing or thinking about writing. The student should write at least a paragraph a week, try to write regularly, even if only once a week. Four times a semester each student will read from his journal in class. Then the student will turn the journal in to be read by the instructor."

Fair enough. I've been thinking a lot about writing since borrowing DG's "Creative non-fiction" book. Crap. Where is it? I don't know the title of the book and can't seem to find it. Anyway, this book argues that there is an artificial and unnecessary distinction between creative and non-fiction writing. I was not terribly interested in this thesis but found the writing exercises interesting. It's really too late in the evening to be doing this, so I'll return to it later. With this blog post I wanted to establish this reflective practice early, which I did. So, good.