Writing for Week Eight

Over the past two weeks, you have worked on a Short Story and a Final Project of Fiction or Non-fiction. And you have all shared work on the threads, a practice you will continue this week.

In other words, you have no new writing assignments for this week other than revisions as time permits and the completion of your Video Project. I look forward to your sharing these works with everyone--feel free to add a link to the Discussion Thread if you like.

You do, however, have an alternate assignment.

Look over Kyoko Yoshida's three very modern, strange, and surrealistic fables linked here; using these imaginative tales dealing with animals in the fable tradition, write your own fantastic tale, if you like--you need not follow Yoshida's specific example, for you might not enjoy these tales from Japan.

Continue to share your work on the Discussion Thread.

Remember to post all your work in the appropriate links--do not cut and paste into the link, and make sure to put you name on your document.

You have done a great deal of writing in a compressed amount of time--and you have done a semester's worth of writing, for this class demanded as much of you as a regular course, perhaps more given the specific strictures this format places on everyone involved in this compressed course.

 

Remember your final project:

Final Project and Other Material: Due by Midnight, Monday, October 16; if you have questions or concerns, just write me.

You will have a chance to revise all the poetry, and the memoir as well; and I will try to get short stories back with some commentary and suggestions this week.

So, by the due date, write another piece of Non-Fiction or Fiction of 500 to 750 works--or a fable. Remember: if you write fiction, you may enter the mind of only one character. The topic is up to you, though I suggest that you look at the various exercises in the text for inspiration.

Remember, too, the Proctored Project also due at the term's conclusion.