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.