<p>I'm creating my portfolio for the Iowa Young Writers' Studio summer program, and I don't have 10 pages worth of good writing. I lost my flash drive with all of it so now I have to pull it from scratch. I'm at four pages currently. :(</p>
<p>Any advice?</p>
<p>Free-write the next six pages! Then call it your Philosophy of Life.</p>
<p>Write: My Memoirs: Growing up Dirtier then a Pig Playing in a mud bath on a sweltering idaho summer day!</p>
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<p>^ Uhg. So lame journalsimbuddah. So lame. :D</p>
<p>I like the Philosophy of Life idea though... :)</p>
<p>Up to 6 pages. :)</p>
<p>What type of writing samples did you include?
So far, mine is mostly fiction. :)</p>
<p>Google for writing prompts. I've found a lot of interesting ones that have sparked my interest and got me to write when I was in a period of writer's block.</p>
<p>Mine is hard to point out as fiction or non-fiction. It's kind of a mix of both I guess.</p>
<p>My first piece is fiction.
My second is kind of a piece making a statement. It's non-fiction but fiction at the same time.
and that's kind of how it looks from there on out.</p>
<p>Take some song lyrics that are really meaningful to you, and write a work around them.</p>
<p>I did that last year with "Ohio" by CSNY, and it got published in our Scholastic gold-medal winning (so nice to say that, you can't imagine) lit mag.</p>
<p>Actually, my writing sample is pretty similar. The first is fiction and the second is a mix of both.</p>
<p>Agh, I only have 380 words for my statement. I haven't even finished a page, argh</p>
<p>My statement is "finished" but it's crap.</p>
<p>It's horificly bad. I want to burn it, but it's on the computer.
Uhg. </p>
<p>My writing sample is pretty good though. I'm up to barely nine pages. I finally got a poem in it today.</p>
<p>I can't do poetry, aha. Anything I write ends up sounding like a kindergarten poem.
And my statement was alright, I think, but I barely reached a page. :O</p>
<p>I feel as if I have too much to say for my statement of purpose, so I really don't know what to write. :P</p>
<p>^ Same here. </p>
<p>I have one poem in mine. Poetry is hard for me because I already write in a slightly poetic form, but while it's still prose, so it's hard to transfer over.</p>
<p>Ugh, BTW, does the Writing Sample have to be in Times New Roman?</p>
<p>I don't think that they have any "required" text choice, but just to be safe I'd keep it 12 point in Times New Roman. I do know that it must be double spaced.</p>