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Collected stories from English 2250
This PDF contains the stories students in English 2250 in Fall 2011 wished to share with each other. They are in the order they were given to me. Enjoy.
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Open House for London Study Abroad
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 Liberal Arts 116 10 AM-2 PM Ø Get refreshments and lots of information! Ø Find out how to use Financial Aid (Pell Grants, SEOG, Perkins and Stafford Loans ) Ø Discover funding opportunities from UVU, the Gilman Program, and others Ø Find out … Continue reading
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2250 fragments
Remember, you need to bring an electronic version of your notes on these fragments. I suggest using the fiction criteria on the course syllabus in the writing of your notes.
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Brown’s Wieland, exploration, and doubt
From Richard Gray’s A History of American Literature: “Brown is exploring the two prevailing systems of thought in early America: respectively, the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the mysticism of Christianity. He is also casting both into doubt” (97-98). What … Continue reading
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Controlling point of view
How do we move from an exterior to the inner life of a character? One method: exterior description of character and setting (at least three sentences) explicit thoughts about the setting (one sentence): “He thought,” “she thought” implicit thoughts/interior monologue … Continue reading
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Cinderella, conflict, and connection
Look at this view of Cinderella, from Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction. Consider also these contrasting views of conflict and connection when plotting/characterizing, which are also from Burroway’s book.
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Encountering objections
Which of the objections (generated by either you or a peer) to your thesis or supporting points are most likely to be presented by your audience? Of these, which do you want to refute or concede? How can you directly … Continue reading
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Other commandments/conventions
“So it’s always critical to keep in mind that there are no rules in fiction, only conventions that have been built up over the years based on the way that writers have crafted their stories. (A convention is ‘an established … Continue reading
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Poetry portfolio questions
What worked well as you wrote poems for class this semester? What could have been better? If you had another week to finish this assignment, how would you use that time? Describe the process of assembling the portfolio: what did … Continue reading
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Prose poems and workshopping
Here are some examples of prose poems. These are some poems for workshopping and here are some more. These are the first fiction fragments we’ll workshop. These are the second. Here are a third and fourth for our consideration. Remember, you need to … Continue reading
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