I read Jackie's and Ariel's story beginnings today and they are absolutely brilliant. Ariel's is a time montage and Jackie's is a space montage and a time montage combined. She's got three characters on a plane for the space montage and then she goes back in time and creates scenes for each one. Absolutely scintillating and the writing is hilarious. You heard Ariel read her gas station scene to the class last week, remember? She's finished that story so I'm looking forward to reading it.
March 8--is your big deadline. NO EXTENSIONS, PLEASE! You need to hand a clean, double-spaced copy to each member of your workshop group. The group list is below. We will want to pass these out quickly at the beginning of class as Terence Young will be reading to us that day.
Workshop groups: Bring a copy of the story for each member of the group. If you are having trouble printing it, do so in the computer lab as it's fast and easy. Make sure that your story has been edited well (spelling, grammar, scenes, language, sentence variety) and that it meets the criteria. Be sure to read and re-read the criteria.
Jack has finished reading Mean Boy. As I look around, most of you have hardly scratched its surface.
I want you to read, read, read. If you are not reading that, what literary fiction are you reading? I want to know. Reading great, literary fiction is a writer's best friend.
Jackie, Liam and Karen
Jack. Alexis and Harrison
Ariel, Kaylaa, Isabella and Adam (Adam, no pressure--but if you want to join us for editing, please do, even if you don't have a story ready, you may read your group's stories and respond)
Gave, Sena and Sophia
We meet in the lab next class and will continue to do so until March 8th. If you need some editing assistance, let me know.
