Day 1 - What does a writer do?

The opening questions seem quite simplistic -

1. What does a writer do?
2. Why is writing important?
3. What makes good writing?

After smashing out the first couple of ideas write, inspire, be creative, publish, communicate the ideas came to a crashing halt. What else do they do? ponder...... persuade........... convey knowledge... debate?
When the class all sat down and shared their ideas the composition of the work they do just kept expanding until all these ideas came to fruition. A much larger selection of ideas than one person could imagine with the time we had to draft our concepts.