Assignments: 11/9 & 11/16

Post your response to Bhanu Kapil's reading last week. And your fiction dialogue piece.

11/9 Rodrigo Toscano reading 6:30pm (since this is during class time, you will get double points for the response; if you don’t post a response you will NOT receive credit for attendance)

Dreamland Theater, downtown Ypsi
26 N. Washington St. (at N. Congress)

http://www.dreamlandtheater.com/
(go to the website to see map)


For 11/16

1. Post a blog response about Toscano’s performance

2. Read, print, bring the Essay Packet posted on myemich files; come prepared to discuss one or two points of interest from the packet

3. Choose one of the following writing exercises and type up a new fiction piece:

*Make a list of four qualities that describe a character real or imagined. Place that character in a scene and write the scene so that the qualities are conveyed through significant detail. Use no generalizations and no judgments. No word on your list should appear in the scene.

*Use a page from the dictionary, pull out a few words, use these to begin writing a story.

*Write a 200-word description of a place. You can use any and all sensory descriptions but sight: you can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and even tastes like. Try to write the description in such a way that people will not miss the visual details. Put a character in that place and have her/him do something.

*Sit in a restaurant or a crowded area and write down the snippets of conversation you hear. Listen to the people around you — how they talk and what words they use. Once you have done this, you can practice finishing their conversations. Write your version of what comes next in the conversation. Match their style.