Gathering the pieces - Brokeback Mountain

Today, you will have time to do any of the following:

--gather ideas from your journal or the exercises we did in class. Begin writing a first draft of an original story. RULES: tell your story in objective 3rd person POV. Your story should include at least 3 distinct events that move the story along. Complicate your situation by giving your character(s) problems that need solving. When you get stuck, keep thinking: what happens next? How will the characters react to the trouble? What exactly is the trouble?

--add setting and characterization to one of your previously written stories. Apply what you have written to the work you have already completed. Remember to # this new draft with a new #.

--Read Brokeback Mountain. See HOMEWORK below to figure out what you need to do with this story.

--Complete homework from last class: storyboard & questions about the short story Marigolds (see below for details).

HOMEWORK: Please read chapter 10 in your Creative Writer's Craft books (pg. 196-216). This information will be helpful to you as you write your new story. You will also be tested on the information later.

Read: Brokeback Mountain. This famous story does a lot of what we've been doing in our own stories. It uses flashback, characterization, uses setting (locale) as a symbol, and moves the story along one event at a time, skipping large chunks of time in between scenes, uses white space, etc. As you read, please look for these elements. To turn in: please complete a storyboard of the PLOT (see above). For each new event or complication, draw a little picture in the box and then describe in a caption what scene this is underneath the picture. This is due next class.