Follow syllabus for Wreckage of Reason reading assignment.
Turn in Midterm Evaluation Responses, hard copy, without your name unless you want to include your name; available on myemich.
Fiction portfolio due 3/29; assignment sheet on myemich.
The final publishing project assignment is posted on myemich. I will bring in samples next week, but start thinking about what you want to do.
Blog response on new reading from Wreckage; write about 2-3 stories.
Writing; Choose one of the following:
a. Write a description of a rural landscape, a city street, or a room. Use only active verbs to describe inanimate as well as animate tings. Use concrete and sensory details to make the description come alive.
b. Write about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation boring and that your characters are bored or boring or both. Fascinate the reader with your description of this boring situation. Use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or judgments. Be specific and concrete.
c. Write about one of the following and “Show” the rhythm and functioning of the subject through the language and structure of the prose: a machine of some kind, a vehicle, a piece of music, something that goes in a circle, an avalanche…something else along these lines?
Use the results from the above exercise(s) to construct a story. Include one or more characters in a place having some sort of situation. The story can be long or short. It can be in parts or include some kind of form or structure that is not linear. Etc. Type this up.
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