Monday, April 22, 2013

Hemingway Quiz; Bradbury Project & Preparing a Fiction Workshop

After our quiz and essay on Hemingway and the short story collection: The Snows on Kilimanjaro, please complete your Bradbury project today in the lab.

  • Rearrange the three stories in any way you deem necessary to create ONE longer story made up of the three shorter stories. 
  • You want to consider the structure of your placement. In other words: what story should be read first, which story should be read second, and which story should conclude your interlocking story? Generally we want to end a story with a climax, or thinking about the theme, message, or point. It is often good to end a story with an important image--hey! Just like a poem! 
  • Title your story. No story should be nameless...
See previous posts for further details.

If you finish early, please either read the article handout on endings, dramatic structure, and narrative authority, the blog post above on ENDINGS, or prepare one of your stories for next class' workshop.

What is possible to revise and revisit?
--Hint fiction drafts
--Micro fiction draft
--Sudden fiction draft
--Bradbury Project draft
LAB (AFTER THE TEST)/REVISION: Add a FLASHBACK or steam of consciousness scene or two to one of your already written drafts. This will essentially change the draft number and style of the work. That's okay. Add the details necessary to incorporate the technique.

HOMEWORK: Please read the article handout and the post above on ENDINGS. As you read, consider your own work and how you ended your stories. Are there other options you could have chosen? Which endings would you like to try?

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.