Bill Gaston will be coming next Thursday to read to us!
Next week the focus is on micro-fiction: the postcard, the prose poem, the monologue.
Good copy of your story due Monday. Please follow the criteria sheet to avoid disappointment. Also, please ensure all dialogue is punctuated properly and paragraphs are indented correctly.
Review the sheets you have on good dialogue tips and how to punctuate.
The key here is a story that works. It makes us feel, think, ponder about something that is important to the writer. It avoids sentimentalism, Hollywood and cliched language.
Attention is paid to imagery and sentence variety.
You vary your paragraph length. You ensure there are several scenes and the story is light on exposition. No room for dull journal entries here.
Today, we workshopped the stories. The following students will need to have their story workshopped before I accept it on Monday: Sara, Mitch, Emily, Eryn, Nolan, Hanna, Max and Nicole. Thank you. There will be consequences for late work (as you know).
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