week of 4/9/13

4/11/13

Goal: Look at another fiction example and work on your story.

HW: Complete Short Story due a week from today. (4/18/13)

Requirements: Your short story must have well developed setting, plot, conflict, point-of-view and theme, and at least one well-developed character.

First Step: Review Plot types. Which one would fit your character?

1. Quest
2. Adventure
3. Pursuit
4. Rescue
5. Escape
6. Revenge
7. The Riddle
8. Rivalry
9. Underdog
10. Temptation
11. Metamorphosis
12. Transformation
13. Maturation
14. Love
15. Forbidden Love
16. Sacrifice
17. Discovery
18. Wretched Excess
19. Ascension
20. Descension.

Reading: "The Bass, the River, and Shiela Mant"

If time: Work on stories. 

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