Schedule Update

Schedule – Fiction reading and writing

Feb.

17: *Poetry Portfolio Due
Burroway & Lamott readings on Writing Fiction (emuonline)

19: Fiction Packet 3  (emuonline)

24-26 Winter Break

March

3 *small group workshop: print and bring 1 story of your own to share (from any of the fiction exercises)

Fiction: continue with fiction packet 3 and read story by Oates on emuonline

*Come prepared to discuss all of the stories in class; in class quiz

*You should also be working on the following stories of your own: 4 qualities, Description, Vocabulary

5: Fiction discussion con’t

*1-2 stories/1-2 pages of fiction due

10: Fiction Shange and Dandicat – emuonline

*don't forget to post a reading response to your blog every Thursday by class time

*see syllabus for continuation of schedule as written

Fiction Writing Exercise

Fiction Writing

*Make a list of four qualities/characteristics that describe a character real or imagined. Place that character in a scene and write the scene so that the qualities are conveyed through significant detail. Use no generalizations and no judgments. No word on your list should appear in the scene. Use detail and description to SHOW the qualities through the scene and the actions of the character. 

Then turn the scene into a story with character(s), situation, setting, and etc.