Monday 4/20: Review Writing Fiction, 168-178 ("At What Distance?" in POV chapter)
No class meeting today.
Please fill out the Google form I'll send you Monday morning to check in for class. Thanks!
Weds 4/22: Please write a journal entry, 350 words or more.
No required topic for this week, but here are some suggestions:
Try writing your journal entry from a different POV, e.g. 1st person plural
You might contemplate writing about the coronavirus, using "Invasion from Outer Space" as a model.
You might try a different addressee or form (e.g. stream of consciousness or a newspaper article?)
I'd encourage you to try writing by hand. If possible, grab a notebook and go outside. You can take a photo of your journal entry and post that on Canvas
Journal writing can be very therapeutic. If it's helpful, use the journal to write about whatever's coming up for you these days.
Canvas link is here
Fri 4/24: Please write another journal entry, 350 words or more.
Again, no required topic for this week, but here are some suggestions:
Suggestion 1:try your hand at a stream-of-consciousness POV
experiment, like Joyce and Woolf, with the creative punctuation, use of caps--or no caps, fragments, and moving closer and further from your thoughts, as if you were a character you were writing about
Suggestion 2: try your hand at an omniscient POV
Write about yourself and your family as if you were inhabiting a god-like stance.
Make bold statements
Go into and out of various people's thoughts
Move from statements about actions to statements about thoughts (thank you, Om, for this observation!)
Makes judgments
As with stream-of-consciousness, experiment with psychic distance, moving closer and further from your "characters" (you and friends, family, community, etc.)
As before, I'd encourage you to try writing by hand. If possible, grab a notebook and go outside. You can take a photo of your journal entry and post that on Canvas
Journal writing can be very therapeutic. If it's helpful, use the journal to write about whatever's coming up for you these days.
Canvas link is here