I have two thoughts on Janet Eldred's essay on compositionists doing more compositions:

1) I really like it. The idea that we should do real creative work outside of the "academic essay" (whatever that is) really entices me, and having read Gilyard's Voices of the Self and Villanueva's BootstrapsI think that there is definitely a place for hybrid discourse to make an impact on the field. And I love to write that kind of stuff.

2) Activating this kind of trend in the field would be interesting, because there really is no good reason that many genres couldn't be taken with it. I mean, you've got the creative nonfiction/literary nonfiction, and the digital text that might be both academic and personal (or casual), but then it will be impossible to stop ourselves from doing more straight fiction (if in the guise of satire, parable, or allegory). It's at that point that I wonder what our real purpose is in doing it.

But either way, I like moves to recognize creative writing as something that is not exclusively the province of the Creative Writing program.