Writers,
Great job for showing up and working on dialogue on this gray and rainy day. We’ve made it half way through the semester! I’m posting links from today’s class and the link to the required Discussion Board, but want to start off with a couple of reminders:
- Literary Arts Festival today (March 24, 4:30 pm). The link again if you need it is HERE. Attendance is encouraged, not required. We looked at Layli Long Soldier’s work in class
- You have a Reading Quiz coming up. It will be on Blackboard as before. Here is the review post with the listed stories. I’ll post more information next week: ENG 1141 Fiction Readings: March and April 2022
- For those who want to go further with fiction writing than our in-class prompts, here is the Writers’ Notebook Prompt sheet for writing fiction:
Today’s class links:
We discussed writing dialog and used materials from our OpenLab course resources: Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Tuesday Siesta. We discussed how writers shape dialogue on the page and deliver information about character, setting, and importantly, conflict through the voices and crafting of their characters.
We also brainstormed a short story driven by dialogue. Here are instructions for the Discussion Board, due anytime before our Tuesday class.
Session 15 Discussion Board: Exploring POV and Dialogue
For this discussion board, upload EITHER the dialogue you started with our free write in class on Thursday (March 24) or the exercises we did in class exploring Point of View on Tuesday, (March 22). You should write enough for the reader to sense the conflict that is unfolding on the page.
The discussion board is here: here:https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/eng1141-sears-sp2022/forum/topic/session-15-discussion-board-exploring-dialogue-and-point-of-view/
