Friday, January 28, 2011

WRITING FICTION

H 01/27 Discussion of Girl by Jamaica Kinkaid
Assigned Groups and order for workshop.
Read: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Some assignments to choose from:

Trigger Sentences:
1. We were not getting any____________, there was ______________ to consider and ______________

2.After____________, things changed, not in _____________ ways but _______________

3.Believe something, ___ told ___________, even if it's_________________

4. The ingredients are the same for_____________ as for_____________

Or set a scene in a place that contains trees. Have a character engaging with the landscape in some way while another character tells a story.

Or write a scene in which two characters are disagreeing over something based on a mishearing. Include a kind of soda and a day of the week.

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