Category Archives: Examples

According to the American Book Review, these are the best first lines of novel-length books. Do you agree? What do the best of these have in common?

Kazuo Ishiguro describes his process in interesting detail in this link.

This is a link to one excellent example of the pre-writing assignment and here is another.

In a group of three or four, practice revision by changing the text below. Make these changes with the questions I’ll ask as I evaluate you work in mind. In other words, the changes you make as a group should be … Continue reading →

From An Anthology of Really Short Stories, edited by Jerome Stern, some examples of sudden, flash, or micro fiction.

From Great American Prose Poems, an anthology edited by David Lehman, here are some samples.

See this PDF for interesting examples of villanelles. Here are some sonnets.   Sestina You used to love me well.   Well, you– me– used love to . . .   to . . . well . . . love. You used … Continue reading →

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.