Week Seven Creative Writing Reading Assignment

This week, the class begins formal work on the final area of the term, short fiction.

Consult last week's assignment for your final formal writing projects--two short stories or one short story and another memoir by the final due date.

Remember, too, that you must complete your final special project as well.

Use the various prompts in the text for generating ideas for your next two writing projects..

This week's special and enjoyable writing assignment will deal with some micro fiction, which I discuss in the Writing Assignment and in the Class Notes for this week.

Continue to use the threads for sharing work--and remember that you can put up work from previous weeks and that writing on which you presently concentrate.

Again, continue to revise your work, on which I will work until the term's conclusion to get back to you with at least a couple suggestions; the eight-week schedule does not favor revisions in a writing- intensive class, I know, but do the best you can, exhaustion notwithstanding.

For this week, read the following materials:

The Creative Writing Guide:

"The Structure of a Story: Setting and Plot," 204-233.

"Popular Mechanics" by Raymond Carver, 252-253.

On the Internet:

"Boys and Girls" by Alice Munro (Link).

"Horse Dealer's Daughter" by D. H. Lawrence (Link)

Road Trip:

"Jonas Agee: 81-96.

If you do not get to all the reading, no matter. But make sure to read Carver's piece of flash fiction, which I discuss in the notes and in the fun writing assignment for this week, Micro and and Nano Fiction.

Carver is one of the premier contemporary writers in the United States, and the Canadian Alice Munro is perhaps the greatest living short fiction writer in the world.

Jonas Agee is married to Brent Spencer and writes essays, short fiction, and novels; she teaches at UNL.

 Enjoy the reading and the writing.

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