Writing Territories

In class today, we discovered our writing territories. Writing Territories are areas (territories) of interest to you that will hopefully help you find topics to write about.
Brainstorm some topics you are interested in writing about.

“These [writing territories] include subjects I‟ve written about or might like to, genres I‟ve written in or would like to try, and audiences for whom I write or would like to. The list of territories represents my self-portrait as a writer. Because I use it to model for kids to learn from, I try to make it personal, specific, diverse, and unpretentious: ideas of mine that might generate ideas of theirs.”  --Nancie Atwell, In the Middle


Begin by thinking about your family.
1. What good stories could you tell about parents, grandparents, siblings?
2. What books do you like?
3. Where do you go to relax? Enjoy yourself? Can you descibe these places?
4. What political, social or cultural issues interest you?

Answer these questions in list form. Ask me and I'll show you mine so you can get a better idea of what I mean.

Writing Territories are different for each and every person. My territories are not the same as yours.