Journal Prompt: A group of people sit at a table in a restaurant. A man sits next to a woman and says, “I’m going to sit next to Jenny and pressure her into eating with her hands.” Write a scene.
A woman in business wear is sitting in a car at a red light eating a banana. Write her internal monologue. What is she thinking? How does this line up (or not) with her external appearance and/ or actions? (7 minutes)
- How much can you make up for it to still be considered cnf?
ii. Questions: Fiction
- Is fiction the genre that can be imaginary/ fake?
- Can we write any genre of fiction? How many genres of fiction are we going to cover?
- I am unsure how to write fiction. What are good ways to plan out a story/ brainstorm? How do we come up with interesting stories?
- How much truth and fiction is typically in a piece? Is it still fiction if it is based off of personal experience?
- Can fiction also be expressed in hypermedia?
- How long are the pieces supposed to be?
- What is the limit as far as content?
- How do we not get stuck in a story, unable to finish it?
iii. Questions/ Concerns: Reading
- Can we read any genre at the reading?
- Can it be a piece from our Portfolio?
- Can it have been written in the past?
- Concerned that people won’t do their jobs.
- Concerns about having an audience. Are people actually going to come? I don’t think 8:30 am is a great time.
- Why do people have to come?
- Concerns about money.
- Concerns about leadership of the entire project – can people in other committees comment on the decisions made by others? For example, when we come back together as a group, should the whole class discuss what the food committee decided upon?
- Does the Final Reading and how pretty the execution is impact our grade in the class?
- If our piece is longer than 3 minutes, can we we just read part of our piece?
- How am I going to read anything in 3 minutes?
- Can we take our paper(s) onstage or is this not allowed?
- Excited – Hope for the stage – I plan on getting very creative.
- I am bringing OJ – I love OJ.
I. Fiction Intro – Character (Ch. 4, Burroway)
- Character as Desire
- Character as Image
- Character as Voice
- Character as Action
- Character as Thought
- Character as Presented by the Author
- Character as Conflict
- Stock and Flat Characters