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Fictional Narrative Basics - Beginning
Completion Date: End of Week 1
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Before you move forward in this discussion unit, you will need to more closely examine your selected story, and draw out some examples for you and your fellow students to work with in exploring plot, point of view, description, and character. If you need to do so, please review the introductory material in the three sections of What If? on plot, point of view, and character. Reread the Description exercise as well. Then, reexamine your selected story with an eye toward each of the elements. Other than your story, this assignment is the longest single assignment in the class, and is intended to generate material for you and your fellow students. The assignment asks you to draw four examples from your selected story and post them to four different places in the class craftbook.
1) Choose a passage from the story of not less that 150 words that illustrates the central thing that the main character wants. Type this passage out. Then, in not less than 150 of your own words, discuss how the writer uses this desire in developing the story. Does it lead to particular actions? Is made concrete in objects or symbols? Please post this in the Character section of the class craftbook.
2) Choose a passage or series of passages, totaling not less than 150 words, that illustrate(s) the situation that the character faces in the story. Type the passage or passages out. In 150 of your own words, explain how situations, events, and environments outside of the character's control intersect with the character's desires. How does the writer bring the characters desires in conflict with the character's world? Please post this in the Plot section of the class craftbook.
3) Choose a passage from the story of not less than 150 words that illustrates the perspective from which the story is being told. Type this passage out. Then, in not less that 150 of your own words, describe the story's point of view. Is the narrator also a character in the story? Is the story being told in the present tense? The past tense? Is it being remembered by the narrator? Please post this in the Point of View section of the class craftbook.
4) Choose a passage from the story of not less than 150 words that illustrates how the writer uses description. Type this passage out. Then, in not less that 150 of your own words, describe how you think the writer is attempting to use this description. Does it set up a scene? Reveal something about a character? Provide the reader with some important piece of information? Please post this in the Description section class craftbook.
Beginning Exercise 5 (Req.) - Submit Response
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