I take a step by step approach to creating a dramatic script that provides indirect social commentary.
- Be sure that I understand the assignment
- Brainstorm
- Find and use models
- Begin drafting, considering the form and the intention.
Writing, What Lydon is Thinking
Phillis Wheatley was the first published African American woman, and in the poem "On Being Brought from African to America" she engages in a quiet, cultural rebellion with the use of a single comma.
What Lydon is Thinking
Adults have a tendency to marginalize the difficulties of childhood. That is, to suggest that the challenges faced in high school (and before) are insignificant compared with the challenges of adult life. I've done it. My friends have done it. My parents have done it (and probably yours too).
