So a friend of mine is teaching a half-semester freshman creative course, and she's asking her students to hand in a ten-page portfolio plus weekly responses to readings. And there's me walking into a 200-level course next week with a seven-page requirement and no response requirement.
How much is too much? Does a high weekly page count dilute the quality of those pages...or is a little stretching good for the writerly soul?
I think I'm going to stick to my page counts, but I am upping my in-class writing requirements to two per week. I enjoy thinking up the ten-minute exercise prompts and building them into a collection that fosters something...cohesive. It reminds me of how those huge frescos come into focus when we walk backwards. So my plan is to have the class, through a series of in-class mini write-a-thons, build families of usable characters and landscapes with both interior and exterior elements. And then to give those family members dilemas or desires. A case of personality, place, and problem.
Oh, and of course, to push myself to paint the same kind of fresco!
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