SUMMER E. DICKINSON, MA, BS, BA
Composition & Academics
Writing Spaces Project
Technology Project Title: Authors and Writing Spaces: Place, Materials, and Routine
Author: Summer E. Dickinson, dickinsons@mpcc.edu
Date: June 22, 2015
Description of the Project: Throughout this project, I explore questions regarding published authors’ writing spaces and routines, which have become increasingly popular over the last decade. More and more authors are commenting on their ideal writing place and literary authors’ preferred writing location has been a topic of literary criticism as well. For example, in order to write, “Toni Morrison found refuge in a motel room when her children were small. E. B. White sought it in a cabin on the shore.” When authors make commentary on their preferred writing location and conditions, questions surface. Questions like: Where do authors write? What are their ideal conditions? What distracts them from productivity and why? To examine these questions, I explore writing spaces, ideal conditions for productivity and distraction, and how published authors view space and writing.
Technology Project Audience: Writers interested in the writing process, space, and place; the effect of spatial influence and writing
Key Features of the Project: Where writers write, interview with an author, quotes from where certain authors write and how,
Primary References:
Micciche, Laura R. 2014. "Writing Material." College English 76.6: 488-505.
Palmer, Heather. 2010. "The Heat of Composition." Pedagogy 10.3: 491-509.
Stenberg, Shari J. 2002. "Embodied Classrooms, Embodied Knowledges: Re-Thinking the Mind/Body Split." Composition Studies 30.2: 43-60.
Wilson, Joel. 2015. "Somaesthetics, Composition, and the Ritual of Writing." Pedagogy 15.1: 173-82.
http://www.pw.org/content/importance_place_where_writers_write_and_why_0