Find topics and purposes for your writing that matter to you, to your life, to who you are and who you want to become.

Keep a list of seeds as a writer: topics, purposes, audiences, genres, forms, techniques.

Try new seeds!

Make your own decisions about what is working and needs more work in your writing. Be the first to respond.

Listen to, ask questions about, and comment on others' writing in ways that help move them forward.

Create a handbook of writing mini lessons, recorded chronologically, with a table of contents.

Produce at least a three to five pages of rough draft each week.

Enter words you struggle with on your personal spelling sheet.

Expectations