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Re: on having nothing to write

Ted Fristrom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:08:51 -0000

I'm thinking mostly about how species survive within ever changing ecologies here. The more variety you have, the more likely it is for a species to survive when something changes. But that's precisely what "predictable" situations, "carefully constructed prompts" and "controlled testing" situations fail to produce, let alone measure.

Re: on having nothing to write

digitaldigs — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:21:36 -0000

An interesting definition Ted. (and sorry for the comment moderation, I'm getting killed with spam.) If advancement requires proliferation and variety, then we are advancing in myriad directions. I see your point though. To advance as a writer is to become able to make use of writing in a variety of ways. And then "advanced writing" is a course where students are asked to write in various ways? I suppose that would be a generic definition of such courses.

I wonder if advaned writing courses are giving way to more specific technical, professional, creative genres.

Re: on having nothing to write

Ted Fristrom — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:44:09 -0000

Advancement is the proliferation of useable variety.