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Fictional Narrative Basics - Beginning
Completion Date: End of Week 1
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Once you've allowed the story generation exercise(s) done previously to sit for a night or two, go back and reread them. What elements seem most interesting to you? Have you created a character that you want to know more about? A compelling voice with a story to tell? Did you invent or remember a complicated situation that you'd like to see characters try to resolve? Did you describe an interesting or unusual place?
Every writer finds and starts stories in different ways, and it's useful to understand yourself as a writer. The better you know how you start stories, the better you'll know where to go looking for them. A second set of exercises is listed below. Read through each of these, as well as the accompanying information, or the introductory material to the sections of What If? in which the exercise is found. Select the one that most interests you, and complete it. This exercise will be submitted to me but will not be posted on the course site. You should put a copy in the appropriate section of you own craftbook.
- What If? Exercise 19 - Oh!... That Sort of Person, p. 49
(also read the introduction to the "Characterization" section of What If?, p. 47)
- What If? Exercise 30 - First Person or Third, p. 85
(also read the introduction to the "Perspective, Distance, and Point-of-View" section of What If?, p. 83)
- What If? Exercise 44 - The Skeleton, p. 124
(also read the introduction to the "Plot" section of What If?, p. 121)
- Description Exercise - developed from an exercise in John Gardner's The Art of Fiction.
Beginning Exercise 4 (Req.) - Submit Response
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