assignments and exercises

See syllabus for readings assignments (re: Gladman's Event Factory; read and come prepared to share passages and discuss)

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.