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| BIG PROJECT! |
Propose a longer project due by October 25
o Think of multiple drafts
o Pick a genre
o A collection of poems
o Several short memoir writings
o Short fiction
o A draft of a longer work you envision (novel, screenplay, books of poems or short storied, play, book-length memoir)
· Intermittently, we will also work on “re-vision” as a way to ‘see again’ our first drafts. We will imitate poems, try short fictionalized versions of memoir, and continue to explore ‘fine lines’ of sentences or poetry lines we admire.
What to include in a proposal or prospectus for a longer term piece of writing?
A prospectus for a longer piece is not set in stone, but it gives you and the instructor a possible road map or blue print that you can stray from as you are in process.
· What Genre?
· For plays, screenplays, television scripts, fiction or nonfiction memoir,
o an idea of the plot structure or sequence of events
o Beginning
o Middle
o End
o Character and characteristics of protagonist
o Conflict and/or antagonist (man vs. society)
o Themes you’re exploring (if you know yet)
o Collection of short pieces (unified by one character or one theme)
o A novel: what is the overall structure? How much do you hope to complete by the end of October? How much can you work on it outside of class?
· POETRY
o Expected length
o Collection of poems (unified by what theme?)
o Short or long lines
o Rhymed or unrhymed
o Meter or free verse
· Plans for multiple drafts and revision over time
· Always important:
o Imagery, senses, concrete and telling details
o Character, fully realized, not out of focus, but sharp, with contradictory qualities, rounded, not flat.
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