Longer Writing Project

>If you could write anything creative, even if you were unsure that you could do it, what could you imagine writing? A play? A screenplay? A telescript for your favorite show? A novel? An extended memoir? A long poem?

>When I was writing a novel, I kept two notebooks: one with actual pages by chapter and another about the novel and the characters with overviews of the plot. I recommend that students open two files, then, the text itself and planning and details.

How often do you think feedback from another reader should be offered? When the manuscript is complete? Every day? Once a week?

Let's work out together the parameters of your longer-term project.
Results?

• Students will seek weekly feedback from the instructor by submitting work in progress each Thursday or Friday
• Writers will also seek out a peer to get feedback from
• Feedback should be honest (but peers need to be trained in how to give constructive feedback)
• As a class we are choosing combinations of genres, from poetry to plays to screenplays to novels and short stories
• A prospectus or outline is due by the end of this week and periodically
  

 

Sunrise Creative Writing: Longer Projects

Thelma Calvo	Poetry Collection	Forward, intro sections
Maria Lark	Novel about Henry, Ru, Darcy	70+ pages
Sammy Weiser	“Grey” a novel	Each chapter from an anorexic to different people
Sibella Dowad	One-act play	Dr Totland is a mentor
Natalya Sands	Novel: “Haemorrahged” Complicated chars: Lydia Beatrice, Verity, Harvey	Each char writes two chapters in diary form
Billy Wilson	Spoken word The Invisible Man	Hip hop flow, rhyme	Don’t read aloud
Gaby Nicolov	Still submitting
Imogen Harbinson-Frith	Screenplay about two orphans, Sebastian & Elizabeth	Imagine Greater
Livia Wilson	Short Story: William	Tries to reverse bad luck, w/Lucy
Stephanie Antebi	Still submitting

 

PROSPECTUS:

writing a Prospectus for a longer work in Creative Writing

(for Novel, Screenplay, Short Stories, Memoir, Collection of poems and short writings)
Description of the project:
Synopsis of the events or plot:
Describe the main character(s):
Describe the central conflict:
Outline and Structure:
Forward by the poet
SAMPLE

Spoken Word (Slam Poetry)

We are watching spoken word and slam poetry and beginning to write our own poems.
Sarah Kaye
Louder than a Bomb
What we are seeing in spoken word:

• freedom of subject
• metaphor
• rhyme or not
• repetition
• circling back
• choose the right words to communicate the right meaning
• very personal
• always to be performed
• if you can't say the words, you can't perform it.
• Good luck!

Creative Writing Second Semester

2014 January Creative Writing

Second semester in Creative Writing class, let’s design our goals and curriculum together, with some suggestions below:

·         More choice and more reading aloud in second semester

·         Creative reading leads to creative writing

·         Begin most days with short readings, end most days with short student readings

·         Students set individual goals

o   Outline your goals on your blog in right-hand column

·         Spoken Word and Songwriting  

o   Explicit lyrics

o   Louder than a Bomb

o   YouTube

o   Performing Spoken Word

·         Revisit Dr. Totland for a week

·         Article Writing

·         Responding to Photos

o   Found photo + commentary

o   Family Photo

o   Poetry or Creative Nonfiction

·         Longer Sustained Project

o   Sustained effort with Revision

o   Consider publishing on web or hardcopy

o   Poetry collection

o   Fiction (short stories or novella)

o   Screenplay

o   Play

o   Creative Memoir