Next Week!

So, next Saturday, the 17th, is our last class for the fall semester!
Please bring the following:
1. Select your favorite piece that you wrote this semester, to read aloud to the group. It should be about three minutes long.
2.  An ugly tie for our Ugly Tie, End-of-Semster Party. There will be a prize for the ugliest tie!!!
3. If you're planning to enter work to the Scholastic competition, register online and print out the form for me to sign.
4. Bring something to eat to share with the group!
5. Email me your favorite 1-3 pieces (poems, flash fiction, whatever!) from the semester, for me to include in our issue of The Purchase Review.
6. A short author's bio about you. 

Characters, Stereotyes, and Fanfiction

"Attempting to get at the truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches." --Harold Evans

Discussion of stereotypes, primary/secondary/tertiary characters. Legitimacy of fanfiction as a genre?

Prompt: Brainstorm stereotypes. Choose one and write a story or scene from a longer piece that goes past the stereotype to create a real character. Remember that characters are motivated by desire: what does he or she want?

Characters: Desire and the MDQ

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

EMILE ZOLA

Craft: characers, motivation, desire.
Craft exercise
Optional  Prompt: Write a short story or scene in which the main character wants something. Whether or not they get it is the MDQ. To challenge yourself, try to end with a satisfying maybe.

The Lit Mag is available!

Hi, Everyone,

Thank you for such a wonderful end to such a great month! I'm so proud of all the work you did! Here, we have our edition of The Purchase Review, available for free from lulu.com. Click here to download.

I hope the rest of your summers are full of swimming and BBQs and anything else that's fun and awesome.

Thanks!
Theresa

Photos for the Lit Mag

Wednesday, 8/1: Revisions and Workshop

Revisions and workshop
Optional lesson: villanelle

Workshop: Jack, Samantha, Lina, Jake.

This week we will finish, workshop, and revise the pieces for the lit mag and for the reading. There will an extra workshop so that everyone has ample opportunity to receive feedback. I encourage you to send you work to me, Anna, and/or Linnea, to get our feedback.

By lunch today, please email me:
truth, lie, best moment, worst moment, glad I am, wish I were. You can have these be short and simple or longer and complex. They can be funny or serious-- whatever you want.

For the reading:
Each person will have about five minutes to read. This will be 4-5 pages double-spaced. You may choose anything that you wrote or worked on this summer: prose, poetry, drama (one-acts and monologues). Also note that you can read a combination, for example: a poem, a piece of flash fiction, and an excerpt from a novella.

For the lit mag:
2-5 pieces. If you are submitting poetry and/or flash fiction, I would like you to put in more pieces. If you are submitting all or mostly prose, it's fine to put in fewer.
Author's Bio: please write up a little blurb about yourself. Here are some examples. My personal favorite in #20.  Here are some more examples. If you scroll down, you will see a "tag line" and an "extensive bio." You can do either. I would like you to limit the amount of specific information (geography, school name, etc.) and speak in more general terms.

Summer Reading and Reception

                                             

 

CWI’s Summer Reading and Reception

Families and friends of our CWI writers are invited to attend our Summer Reading and hear the poems, prose, and dramatic writing that our talented young writers have been working on this summer! We will also present our 2012 edition of The Purchase Review, which will be available for free through Lulu.com.

Friday, August 3rd

1:30-3:30 Reading and Reception

Natural Sciences Building

First Floor, Room 1001 (Lecture Hall)

 

 

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!