The students are supposed to be writing ten minutes a day; most of them aren’t and I am wondering if I should “make” them. I have in the past: they had to put their handwritten pages under my door every twenty-four hours. Thirty days in a row.
Lot of paper, lot of bossing, lot of record keeping; but, students from that class still write to me and say: that thirty days of daily writing changed my life.
Does it have to be enforced? Can it work if it is enforced? Does it only work if the student figures out how to do it on her own?
I am wondering. Should each class start with the thirty days of writing boot camp?
I’m no more a student so I can say this without guilt… MAKE THEM!
Thinking back to my experience, I got either too busy or lazy to do assignments like that. It was only when I was FORCED to do it then I did it, and discovered the treasure in doing so.