This picture encompasses all three things that I mentioned in my "Isolation Stories Week 2" paragraph assignment.
Tea, Animal Crossing, and one chonky cat. Everything Ms LeForte needs to survive quarantine without losing her mind.
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An example of a story written with this criteria: http://teacher2b.com/creative/dialog1.htm an online resource to help you format dialogue if you have forgotten your handout at home: https://www.ursinus.edu/live/files/1158-formatting-dialogue You and your group should create three different types of leads relating to the following prompt:
You are going on your dream vacation. Finally having arrived at your airport destination, you go to pick up your luggage. You take it back to your hotel room and open it up. You have the wrong luggage (or, it is your luggage but the contents have been replaced). What happens next? We will be discussing the prompts in class on February 26th. You can split up the work however your group sees fit- whether each group member writes a different lead, or your group works as a whole on all three leads. Just make sure you have a variety of three different lead types! The Evergreen
By Tara Ramsey Hannah's motorcycle fishtails on wet pavement before she goes down. This is it. When she was a girl, Hannah loved the sensation of cheating the reaper. She climbed the skinny evergreen behind her house, high as she could go, until she could feel death waiting to catch her should she fall. She clung for dear life and kissed the tree, savoring the piney zing of sap. Fear and joy were one. She was alive. Her skin on pavement, death rushing at her in the form of a pickup with squealing breaks, Hannah feels it again; joy, pine sap, waiting arms. Fair By Emily Haymans You promised to get me something if I beat you. Game after game, you rewarded yourself. Funnel cakes, spun sugar, ice cream slipping down paper cups. I saw the mirrored house. It was like the movie you shouldn't have let me watch, when a girl's breath clouded on one of the mirrors, and the man with the knife snapped out from inside of it in a burst of silver triangles. I dropped your hand, my mouth watering. Your voice echoed from glass, my name bouncing around corners like flashes of light. I did not stop for one second to answer. Bad Hotel By Robert Scotellaro The cab driver's eyes in the rearview mirror as our lips parted. Lowering, when my eyes were added. Too much to drink. The hotel ceiling fan spinning the scarf you tossed up there. It was red and green. And it wasn't even Christmas. Just felt like it. Watching TV, after. A politician. A lot of double-talk. You shook your head. Said, "What does it matter if the devil paints his kitchen white?" On the way back, you told me your husband's hands were softer than my own. In the light rain, our taxi veered around a mattress in the Tips for writing Flash Fiction
1. Select a story idea with a limited scope. A moment in time. Flash fiction focuses on the moment of change, realization, or final action. 2. Keep the cast of characters small (one, two, or three). 3. Titles matter. 4. Use any point of view and tense (just be consistent!) 5. Start your story in the middle of the action (close to the inciting incident). Robert Olen Butler says in From Where Dreams Come that "plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing." Let the readers know what that is as early as possible. Tips for writing short pieces 1. Eliminate adjectives and adverbs. 2. Cut "____ said" after dialogue. 3. Use active voice- not passive. (Active: The dog ate my homework. Passive: My homework was eaten by the dog) 4. Cut the backstory. 5.Use a few, well-chosen details. 6.Avoid unnecessary filler words: just, seems, apparently, kind of, rather, sort of, somewhat, appears, very, really, only, that, stuff, things. Examples (these are 100 words- I'm giving you an extra 25!): Nicholas Was... By Neil Gaiman older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tongue, conducted incomprehensible rituals, when they were not actually working in the factories. Once every year they forced him, sobbing and protesting, into Endless Night. During the journey he would stand near every child in the world, leave one of the dwarves' invisible gifts by its bedside. The children slept, frozen into time. He envied Prometheus and Loki, Sisyphus and Judas. His punishment was harsher. Ho. Ho. Ho. |
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