Wednesday, July 31, 2013.

Monologues
9:30-10:30 Fiction/NF Craft:
Examples from: Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, and Roller Coaster.

Prompt: Write a monologue. You can set it anywhere, and if you want, the setting can be dynamic (as in the roller coaster monologue), or in a bunker that is about to be infiltrated.

Lunch 11:45-12:30

12:30-2:15 Poetry Craft
2:15-3:30
Workshop I: Olivia, Harriet, Sam, Molly, Lina, Matt, Laila
Writing Studio
Group Exercises and Games

Tuesday July 30, 2013: Dialogue

Fiction/NF Craft
Dialogue
Dialogue Tags
Adverbs

Prompt:
Write a piece which is almost all dialogue (not a play)
Write a piece which is almost all narrative and contains only one of the following as dialogue: "Yes", "No", "Maybe."

Wednesday, July 24, 2013.

Said and Unsaid

9:30-10:30
Fiction/NF Craft
Dorothy Parker, "You Were Perfectly Fine"

10:30-11:45
Writing Studio

11:45-12:30
Lunch

12:30-2:00
Poetry Craft

2:00-3:30
Workshop
Rachel's Group: Olivia, Matt, Aazum, Sam, Lina, Molly, Harriet, Leila, Mick

Theresa's Group: Eldon, Julianna, Morgan (absent), Jack, Jake, Daniel, Mariel (absent), Kerry, Angela

Tuesday, July 23, 2013.

Unreliable Narrators

Prompt:

PROMPT: Write a piece of flash fiction from the perspective of an unreliable narrator. Do not reveal, until the end that the POV is unreliable. (Twist). Note: there is an axiom that says that fiction tells the truth with lies. Try to do this with your unreliable narrator. Try not to go for the most shocking thing. Try to tell a story and reveal something about human nature. 

Workshop: People in bold are workshopping today. Please email me a copy theresa.benaquist@gmail.com and print out one copy for your workshop instructor and one for yourself (or you can look at it on your computer, but you should have it in front of you). 

Rachel's Group: Olivia, Matt, Aazum, Sam, Lina, Molly, Harriet, Leila, Mick

Theresa's Group: Eldon, Julianna, Morgan, Jack, Jake, Daniel, Mariel, Kerry, Angela

Friday, July 19th.

Craft: Style

Workshop I (complete)

 

Writing Studio Prompt

Write a scene or short piece that takes place in another era. Try to be convincing and think about how people thought and spoke in that time and place. Think about the technology they had.

Lunch

Workshop II

Writing Studio

Thursday, July 18th.

 Writing prompts for Epistolary Stories

1. Write a confession (fiction or nonfiction) in the form of a letter.
2. Write a short story in Epistolary form, from the perspectives of two or more characters, about the same event or situation. (1K-7500K)

Group Game: Zombie 5

Workshop I this afternoon.

Week I: Workshop Groups

We will have our first workshop tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow morning, you should pick something to share. It can be any piece or excerpt from a larger piece, that is 1000 words or fewer. Please email your piece to everyone in your group so they can print it out and/or read it on their computer.

Workshop I, Thursday:
Mariel
Kaila
Kerry
Julianna
Jake
Matthew
Samantha
Kerry
Aazum

Workshop II, Friday:
Morgan
Olivia
Daniel
Leila
Lina
Jack
Mick
Harriet
Molly
Angela

Monday, 7.15.13.

Showing vs. Telling

 

o   Prompt for the day: Think of a dilapidated old house. Now write a short story that takes place there. What does the house look like? What does it smell like? What are the sounds? What time of year is it and how does the house feel (temperature, stuffy, drafty, etc.)?

o   Prompt for the day: Your character and his wife visit a new house that they're thinking of buying. Your character's wife is enthusiastic about the house, but it's really a terrible place. The character hates it but is afraid to say what he really thinks. Show the scene. But.. do NOT tell the reader that the house is terrible. Do NOT tell the reader that your character hates it. Do NOT have the character tell his true feelings about the wife. Instead, make the reader see and feel it all. And eventually, make the wife see it too.