Chapter 9 - Agenda

 

Chapter 9- Fiction

Monday - READ PRIOR TO CLASS

• Free Write
• By now you have from your journal entries an idea for a short story. Take 10 minutes to list all the events of this story in their chronological order. List everything we will need to know in order to make sene of it.  
• If Seth's fear of water results from the time his cruel half brother held him under when he was five - and we need to know this in order to understand why he wont go out in a boat at twenty - then list the bullying incident in its chronological place. 
• Find the item exactly halfway down your list.  Write the first paragraph of your story, beginning there. 
• Take the last item on your list. Write the first paragraph of the story beginning it there. 
• Pick the right item on your list for the beginning of the story. Try these: Begin with a line of dialogue.  Begin with an action. Begin with an image of danger. Begin with the weather. Begin with the protagonist's thought. Begin with a long shot. Begin with a close up. 

• Chapter 9-Fiction
• Story and Plot
• Scene and Summary
• Backstory and Flashback 
• Text and Subtext
• Fiction Format

Wednesday - READ PRIOR TO CLASS

• key words to know in this chapter
• Try This 9.5
• Find a place in your story where you either do or could use a flashback.  Instead use your journal for exploring background.  
• Write down everything, fast. 
• Then take a hard look at it to decide just how little of it you can use...
• How much of it the reader can infer? 
• How you can sharpen an image to imply a past incident or condense an emotion in a line of dialogue? 

Friday 

• meet in recitation classes
• Reminder about November 28, 2022 - Studio Workday. Please submit these fiction stories via canvas by 5:00pm Tuesday, November 29, 2022.