HoNY is a great site for reading stories of people’s lives. We used this site for our character writing exercise. Here is the overall site: https://www.humansofnewyork.com/ The actual pictures we used in class were from these profiles: A US veteran who served in Afghanistan: https://www.humansofnewyork.com/tagged/Invisible-Wounds#7 Two young boys who recently left Syria: https://www.humansofnewyork.com/tagged/syrian-americans#2 A young […]
Flash Fiction Example: Franz Kafka’s “Give It Up!”
“Give It Up!,” a flash fiction by Franz Kafka manages to use every element of fiction to end with a brilliant last line, a necessity in a strong flash fiction. The work’s strange intensity makes it feel contemporary. “Give It Up” relates to themes common in Kafka’s oeuvre, the sense of being trapped in […]
Optional Reading: On Creating Plot, Freytag’s Pyramid, and More
This entry on international concepts of Dramatic Structure, breaks down “Freytag’s Pyramid,” which is also in today’s reading from MasterClass. Here you can see how this analysis evolved from Aristotle’s writings on Poetics. Many of the parts of plot identified in Freytag’s Pyramid are similar to those you all wrote about in the discussion board […]
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