And check out some of these essays on narrative: https://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/narrativity/issueone_toc.html
Work on what might be comparable to 2-3 pages of your Capstone Project in whatever form that is/is becoming. And sign up to come talk to me about your project (sign up sheet in class)
Annotated Bib. draft due soon. See assignment sheet and samples on EMU Online.
Writing Exercises (do some or all of the following)
Expand your work with City Eclogue; write 2-3 more pieces (or continue the piece you have started) that respond, imitate, continue, or otherwise come after Roberson's poems.
Of the following, choose one, freewrite everything you can in response to the prompt, then turn
the writing into a creative piece with character(s), situation (plot, what
happens), setting and/or break with narrative form and play with these various
elements, see what you get:
* Write
about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation is boring and
that your characters are bored or boring or both, however, you must fascinate the reader with your description of
this boring situation: use concrete and sensory details to make the description
come alive; use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or
judgments. Be specific and concrete.
*Use a page
from the dictionary, pull out a few words, use these to begin writing a story.
*Write a
200-word description of a place. You can use any and all sensory descriptions
but sight: you can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and
even tastes like. Try to write the description in such a way that people will
not miss the visual details. Put a character in that place and have her/him do
something.
