* Housekeeping, course information

This is a 16-hour course: 16 hours of writing or writing about writing or, at least, worrying about and procrastinating about writing. We'll meet four times at the Waldo Center to get to know each other, to establish blogs, and then to talk about blogging.

You'll also work on your blog outside of class--I'm assuming that any participants will have their own computers at home. One of the pleasures of blogging is sitting in your house before 6 in the morning, wearing a Swanville Maine baseball cap and drinking dark French roast right at the computer--and blogging! But I've seen blogs done by homeless people in public libraries and by students in school computer labs, so there's no gotta about having a computer.

There will be no grading or evaluations. If you need some sense of how you're doing, if you're not happy unless you're in a race, well, I can't take you out to the track, but you will have me and other participants reading and reacting to your writing--and that ought to be challenging enough for anyone.

You don't need to let me know if you're going to miss one of the sessions at the Waldo Center--what you can do is to turn your out-of-class activity into a blog, as long as it's legal and decent, of course.