Week Eleven: Conclusions and Revision

Monday 4/28--Journal Entry, 975 words. Read the plot summary of The Long Goodbye here.

• • Optional topics for journal:

    • Outline a novel/write opening of novel

    • Describe a favorite food

    • Earth Day-related topic

    • Describe a lunchtime conversation with someone you want to meet.

    • Use a famous opening and freewrite from it

    • Open to a random page in a book, pick a line, then freewrite from it

Tuesday 4/29--Read "Revision" in Writing Fiction, 340-353 .

Thursday 5/1--Revision writing assignment

• • Please read all the prompts on pp. 394-396 of Writing Fiction.

  • Then pick ONE of them to do for homework

  • Post it in your journal.

    • If you picked a prompt that is difficult to post, then please explain the process you used in doing the exercise and what you learned about revision and/or about your story from the exercise.

  • Minimum word count: 600 words.

Friday 5/2--Read "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" in reader, 105-115.

• • How would you characterize the style and feel of this story?

  • Bring a paper copy of the story you wish to revise to class.