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2250 Fiction workshop
Here are the stories we will be looking at in class today.
3420 Stories as fiction writing textbooks
If you desire, you can email to me no more than three examples of your reading the stories below as fiction writing textbooks. Each example of your reading this way can earn up to five points. Each should be no … Continue reading
3420 Time in fiction: Durration
Also from the always excellent Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively, this PDF presents five useful approaches to time in fiction. Start reading in the middle of page 128, under the number four and the heading “Telling Time 3: Duration.” When you finish reading … Continue reading
Microfiction and endings
Talking about endings without an entire story is really difficult. In groups of three, read through as many of these really short stories (from Jerome Stern’s excellent Microfiction) as you can in 10 minutes or less. Then, consider these questions. … Continue reading
Revision and openings
Consider these questions: What kind of story does your beginning promise readers? How do you know? Which words make the promise? Which words or phrases establish the POV in your story? How are readers introduced to characters? What are readers’ … Continue reading
2010 Synthesis example
We will talk about this example of a synthesis essay in class.
2250 More poems for discussion
This PDF contains more poems for us to talk about during the next few class meetings.
3420 Thinking about processes and the draft
Address these prompts. You have lots of time. Do a good job. Describe the process of writing this draft. What worked well? What would you do differently if you could? While the specifics of an assignment are a factor, what … Continue reading
2250 and peer review
Here are some poems for us to talk about on Monday.
Point of view review
Consider this PDF a reminder of the essentials of point of view. What does it leave out? How does it contrast with the chart in our textbook? Consider as well this PDF. What do its examples suggest about point of … Continue reading
Metaphor by Metaphor 