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Start with Three Goals

Guide Your Journey

In this section, you’ll come up with three writing goals for doing the lessons.


Why Personal Storytelling Matters

“If there is a feeling that something has been lost, it may be because much has not yet been used, much is still to be found and begun.”

— Muriel Rukeyser[1]


 

STEPS FOR GETTING READY
Writing Goals

To finish setting up, you will:

  1. Required: Learn how to write effective goals.
  2. Required: List three goals in your Process Notebook.
  3. Optional: Do some introductory reading.
  4. Optional: Find a writing partner or group.
  5. Optional: Read the Opening Inspiration
    – with a nod to the author Ursula K. Le Guin.

  1. The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser, originally published 1949 (Paris Press, 1996), p. 7.

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Lessons for Life: Finding Your First-Person Voice Copyright © 2023 by Martha Nichols. All Rights Reserved.