Week 10: Scene Cont'd

Mon 3/19--S: Journal entry:

  • Write about a moment that changed your life.

    • Try using "slow motion" and other techniques from Chapter 6 of Writing Fiction to create a scene based on your memory.

    • 300 words

    • Other 625 words: up to you!

    • Total word count: 925 words

    • Please write the time the assignment took you in bold.

    • Post on Canvas

Tu 3/20 or Weds 3/21--L: Read Lucia Berlin: "A Manual for Cleaning Women" at end of reader.

    • Please note how the story uses scene, summary, and flashback (if it does).

Thurs 3/22--L: Draft of Story #2 due

  • Please make sure to bring in 3 paper copies (to be distributed to classmates)

  • Same story requirements (900 words, etc.) as last time.