1. Explore your relationship to a piece of pop culture. That could be a movie, a director, an author, a particular work of art, an album or a song, etc. Choose something you’re obsessed with, or have spent a lot of time with. Through your writing, try to figure out why you connected so strongly to that thing. And try to connect it to some “large subject” in your life.
2. Write about a place, like Andrea Kleine does in one of this week’s readings. It could be a specific apartment, or a specific room. It could be a neighborhood, or a block. But again, the goal is to use that place to say something larger about yourself, or your community.
3. Write about a time you felt out of place, like Lefkowicz often does in her essay, “The Gifted Classes.”
