<p> The Creative Writing Self-Audit</p><p>Due: Wednesday, August 20</p><p>1. What is your first memory of writing? How old were you? What did you write? How did you like it? Who did you show it to? What did he/she/they say? Write this up as a scene. 2. In particular, what teacher helped you most with your writing? In what ways? Tell stories. Or write a character sketch. 3. Stand back from yourself and describe yourself as a character who reads. What does this character choose to read, when, where, why, how, and so on? 4. Who reads your writing? Do you like to share? When you share a piece of writing with someone else, what is it? What are the circumstances? What do you both say? 5. What do you think means writing good? What does one need to be a good, successful writer? Can everyone be a good writer? Start this answer by listing your favorite authors and what you like about them. Write a short, imaginary letter to one of the authors, praising his or her work. Then, write back to yourself – an imagined answer from that author – giving advice on how to become a “good” writer. 6. What do you hope to accomplish this year? 7. What do you not like about writing? 8. Explain how you write by answering the following: a. Where do your most creative ideas come from? b. How do you get started? c. What keeps you going and/or what stops you? d. Where are you when you write your best and what are you doing? e. How much do you revise? f. Do you write drafts in longhand, on typewriter, at the computer? g. Complete the following sentences and expand on each answer with a few additional sentences; note, you don’t have to use the same comparison/image for each answer although you might: i. For me, writing is like … ii. For me, revising is like … iii. For me, reading is like …</p>