Mustard - Week 2
I really have no idea. I'm just...really sleepy again. Apologies.
Here's week two - most of it is notes, and a couple of exercises for me to consider in the future if i get stuck.
Stuff that doesn’t take a long time to do
Taco Bell drive-thru
Sneezes
Brushing teeth
Checking mail
Walking to class
Opening a door
Turning in an assignment
Eating breakfast
Diving
Tripping on shoelaces
Listening to music
Making PB&J
Getting dressed
Putting clothes in washing machine
FLASH FICTION (whoo!)
Set within a small time frame: activity happens within a fairly short episode
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FIGHTS:
Catfight
Food fight
Jello fight
Ninja fight
Duel
Husband/wife fight
Walkoff
Breakdance fight
Tug of war
Caserace
Tour de France? XD;;
Transpose the bad situation in high school to two adults; dramatize it. A man stalking a woman? Cliché. Not because he loves her, though; they were good friends and he wants to keep her that way. He feels like she’s branching out too much and controlling him, and he wants to make her stop. She changes her passwords and makes new accounts on websites to eradicate evidence of being friends with him, which upsets him more.
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Richard Bausch - “Aren’t You Happy For Me?”
Pretty much as we discussed in class, this story was very well done. The dialogue was excellent, and Bausch has a talent for slowly revealing things throughout the story. The ending is great; leaving the reader to decide what could happen to the characters, but we’re given enough information to know what’s going on. The ending is more implied than said, and it’s very enjoyable to think about.
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Where do people get ideas for short stories?
Life (their own or others)
Dreams
Other stories
History
Music
Historical figures/times/places I’ve been interested in:
Shinsengumi
Shakespeare
Civil War - specifically Gettysburg
Ancient Egypt
American Revolution - Thomas Jefferson
WWII - Germany
Notre Dame cathedral - Gothic Architecture
Couple of intro paragraphs about something based on something in the list above: Shinsengumi
POV: Okita Souji.
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Things that are true/one lie:
I want to pursue a career in Creative Writing.
I played basketball in high school.
I value friends and family above anything else.
I’m the middle of three siblings.
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One sentence about what I did this weekend:
Saturday, I went to Culver’s and WalMart with Fuzz, then we played Persona 2 and Mass Effect until 12:30 AM.
Syllable count dat sentence!
3-paragraph short story, where every word is one syllable. (Could be a story about anything).
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YEAR: 1764
Learn everything you can about major events of that year!
Find something that interests you.
Imagine a story set about that time/place/etc. Don’t have to start writing, but BRAINSTORM for it.
Chief Pontiac surrenders to the British.
Write about the Detroit siege? Write from the perspective of either one of Pontiac’s soldiers or one of the British soldiers at Fort Detroit.
Here's week two - most of it is notes, and a couple of exercises for me to consider in the future if i get stuck.
Stuff that doesn’t take a long time to do
Taco Bell drive-thru
Sneezes
Brushing teeth
Checking mail
Walking to class
Opening a door
Turning in an assignment
Eating breakfast
Diving
Tripping on shoelaces
Listening to music
Making PB&J
Getting dressed
Putting clothes in washing machine
FLASH FICTION (whoo!)
Set within a small time frame: activity happens within a fairly short episode
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
FIGHTS:
Catfight
Food fight
Jello fight
Ninja fight
Duel
Husband/wife fight
Walkoff
Breakdance fight
Tug of war
Caserace
Tour de France? XD;;
Transpose the bad situation in high school to two adults; dramatize it. A man stalking a woman? Cliché. Not because he loves her, though; they were good friends and he wants to keep her that way. He feels like she’s branching out too much and controlling him, and he wants to make her stop. She changes her passwords and makes new accounts on websites to eradicate evidence of being friends with him, which upsets him more.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Richard Bausch - “Aren’t You Happy For Me?”
Pretty much as we discussed in class, this story was very well done. The dialogue was excellent, and Bausch has a talent for slowly revealing things throughout the story. The ending is great; leaving the reader to decide what could happen to the characters, but we’re given enough information to know what’s going on. The ending is more implied than said, and it’s very enjoyable to think about.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Where do people get ideas for short stories?
Life (their own or others)
Dreams
Other stories
History
Music
Historical figures/times/places I’ve been interested in:
Shinsengumi
Shakespeare
Civil War - specifically Gettysburg
Ancient Egypt
American Revolution - Thomas Jefferson
WWII - Germany
Notre Dame cathedral - Gothic Architecture
Couple of intro paragraphs about something based on something in the list above: Shinsengumi
POV: Okita Souji.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
Things that are true/one lie:
I want to pursue a career in Creative Writing.
I played basketball in high school.
I value friends and family above anything else.
I’m the middle of three siblings.
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
One sentence about what I did this weekend:
Saturday, I went to Culver’s and WalMart with Fuzz, then we played Persona 2 and Mass Effect until 12:30 AM.
Syllable count dat sentence!
3-paragraph short story, where every word is one syllable. (Could be a story about anything).
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
YEAR: 1764
Learn everything you can about major events of that year!
Find something that interests you.
Imagine a story set about that time/place/etc. Don’t have to start writing, but BRAINSTORM for it.
Chief Pontiac surrenders to the British.
Write about the Detroit siege? Write from the perspective of either one of Pontiac’s soldiers or one of the British soldiers at Fort Detroit.