English 3420/4420
Plan Feedback
- Quote characterization through appearance, speech, and habits.
- Quote the revelation of a character’s personality, thoughts, desires, or motivations.
- What does the plan indicate about the character’s relationships? Does the plan characterize through the character’s immediate surroundings? Living space reveals what about the character?
- According to this draft, how might the character change? Why? Why are the conflicts important to the character? How might they shape the story?
- How do the character’s actions influence the events and scenes of the story? What scenes that seem necessary are missing? Are some events listed as summaries interesting enough to warrant scenes?
- What point of view will the novella be in? What sort of language will the novella use? Why?
- What kind of world is the novella set in? How might that shape the story? What guesses can be made about developing themes?
- Respond to the plan generally. Does the plan seem to act as a resource, a pool of ideas, and a springboard for writing the text? How?
