Autoethnography.

Below is something that we fancy writer types call a “constraint exercise”. Basically some predetermined constraint is placed on a piece of writing and then you write in and around the constraint. I know it sounds arbitrary, but it forces you to think differently than you would normally. It is basically like stretching for your brain.

I wrote this for one of my classes. Here is the constraint:

Find your name in a dictionary--or, if your name is not there, find the place where it would be.  Then, take each noun that follows the place where your name is or would be and use it, in order, to title the sections of a piece of autoethnographic writing. Minimum, 10 sections.

It is harder than it sounds! And my nouns really sucked.

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