9.19.13

the gifs are here: http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4743620/bill-domonokos-interview

and here is the Portfolio page (again):

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PORTFOLIO                                                                                                  
Dr. Kaschock

Consider this a presentation of your writing process (not necessarily product).  I want you to choose pieces that are going to reflect the most spectacular (think spectacle) attempts you made at writing this semester.  It should be a record of both victories and failures—and most especially, writing still in the midst of becoming itself.  Risking.  Your revisions should be drastic in some cases… tweaking words and taking out single lines is just not enough.  Prove to me that you can take chances not just in the initial composition process, but in the messy white-heat-of-revision stage.

Your portfolio should consist of:

            1. At least two drafts of 6 pieces written this semester (no less than 15 pages—better 20-25).  It would be helpful to me if your drafts included at least 3 line-edited pages (per piece) by helpful peers.

            2.  A copy of all the glosses and critiques you provided for your writing partner.

            3.  For each of these 6 pieces I need a description of your revision process (either a paragraph or three, or sticky notes with arrows, or a hyper-text link, or a talking puppet who accompanies your portfolio and tap-dances Morse-encoded explanations).

            4.  A single-page response to an interview you read with a writer.  Look here if you don’t know where to look: http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews

            5.  A single-page response to a professionally published short-story we read for class that relates that story to your own process.

            5.  A three-to-four page introduction to your portfolio that tells me who you are/were/are becoming as a writer and/or as a human being.  Please include somewhere in this text some details about your writing partner’s (or partners’) contribution to your work (do not judge them completely by what they “got” or didn’t “get,” but by sincerity and effort as well).  This is also where you get to display your knowledge of plot, dialogue, character, scene, development, etc.

Please make the portfolio pleasant to behold, handle, and smell.  Your writing exists as both process and object.  Personalize the object (with your other talents if you like) while attempting to objectify the process in such a way that frees you to substantially revise.

Cheers and best of luck.