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:
- Required: Learn how to write effective goals.
- Required: List three goals in your Process Notebook.
- Optional: Do some introductory reading.
- Optional: Find a writing partner or group.
- Optional: Read the Opening Inspiration
– with a nod to the author Ursula K. Le Guin.
- The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser, originally published 1949 (Paris Press, 1996), p. 7. ↵