Friday, December 18, 2009

Please complete draft 3 of your Hemingway stories.

Draft Three: Stream of Consciousness

1. Examine your flashbacks. Find moments where your character can include digressions, get stuck on topics, trail off, etc. You are trying to replicate or reproduce how the character’s mind works. See The Gambler, The Nun, & the Radio (end paragraph on opium) and A Clean Well Lighted Place (the ending paragraph on Nada or "nothing")
2. Write these flashbacks using stream of consciousness.
3. When this draft is completed, please spell check and proofread your work. Try to cut down your long complex sentences to short declarative sentences (like Hemingway does).
4. Title your drafts and send the 3rd draft to the workshop folder with your name on the file.

Here's a few holiday themed television episodes to distract you from doing your work.

Charlie Brown Christmas

Prep and Landing

South Park

Please complete Hemingway (if you haven't already) during the break. Otherwise, please return the books to the library.

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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.