Overview & Reflection
For this assignment, there were only two guidelines: that our writing piece should be at least 300 words, and that it should be in some way related to the purpose of writing and its influence on society. At first, I wasn't really sure where to begin, so I decided to look at some of the prompts, and I was immediately inspired by the idea of a creative writing piece. I wanted to do something really unique for our first assignment, since it was supposed to give our teacher an idea of who we all individually were as writers. Somehow, I settled on the topic of a caveman. The premise of my story, and its relatively loose relation to the purpose of writing, is based around a caveman named Grogg who invents a written language in an attempt to save his village. Even though it's really different from some of my classmates' writing pieces, I really like my story so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it continues throughout the semester.