Self-Assignment Club

Welcome to the Self-Assignment Club.

[Shall be filled in with more details on our aims and integration of our little club with the Workshop itself. I also intend to relate to something Mark said:

When Chuck first started supplying us with essays in early 2004, I renamed our original workshop section "Self-Assignment" as a convenient way of distinguishing in from "Chuckshop."

But there's more to it than that... the name means something.

I learned from one of my best university writing professors to believe in self-assignment as a something imperative for the writer. It doesn't simply mean doing whatever you want as you create something on the fly. It means becoming the expert in what your own writing needs the most, and constructing assignments for yourself based on this discernment.

I'd be happy to throw in some more information along these lines and see if we can get people posting about their own self-assignment directives, and how they arrive at them, as a preliminary to the submitted work.

 

and hopefully from there we can get to the writing and working areas.]