There's been some confusion about where to find the workshop stories for this week. *Puts on exasperated teacher voice.* I did say this in class--I have linked the Google Docs folder to the Homework page of this website. So to access the stories, go to the Homework page and click the link for Workshop #1.
See you all later today. Don't forget to bring TWO copies of each letter for workshop. Also, don't forget to do the Jerome Stern reading for today.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Monday, September 12, 2016
This Week's Reading
For the enhancement of this week's reading, you might want to check out this video of Adam Johnson is which he reads the entirety of tomorrow's story, "Nirvana," and answers some questions from the audience at the end.
Reading Tonight
Tonight there's going to be a reading that I will give you extra credit to attend. It's one of the Campfire series at the Modern Hotel here in Boise. It's also fun. This month it's journalists discussing what stories have resonated in Idaho.
Here's the link to the Facebook event page.
https://www.facebook.com/events/578517255658232/
To get the extra credit, just write a paragraph or two about what the vent was like and what you learned from it. You'll receive an extra participation point.
Here's the link to the Facebook event page.
https://www.facebook.com/events/578517255658232/
To get the extra credit, just write a paragraph or two about what the vent was like and what you learned from it. You'll receive an extra participation point.
Friday, September 9, 2016
Get Going!
I read over all of your Five Story projects this morning, and now I'm so excited for the real, full-length stories! So get writing!
To those of you who couldn't see my comments--I think I've figured out why. You have to open the document in your word processor, like Word or Pages or whatever. Don't open it in the Dropbox program. It has its own commenting system, and that was not the one I was using when I commented. I made my comments in Word, and they should be there. Also make sure your document is set to Final Showing Markup in the review pane--otherwise, the comments will be hidden.
One final note: some of you did use bits here that I would consider genre or experimental in some fashion, and that's fine, but I am going to push you to make those stories literary, so if that's not what you want to do, DON'T USE THOSE. It does us little good for me to force you to write a story looking through a completely different lens from what you want the story to me.
Also, like I said in class, I'd like the stories you write for this course to be original to this semester.
See you Tuesday!
To those of you who couldn't see my comments--I think I've figured out why. You have to open the document in your word processor, like Word or Pages or whatever. Don't open it in the Dropbox program. It has its own commenting system, and that was not the one I was using when I commented. I made my comments in Word, and they should be there. Also make sure your document is set to Final Showing Markup in the review pane--otherwise, the comments will be hidden.
One final note: some of you did use bits here that I would consider genre or experimental in some fashion, and that's fine, but I am going to push you to make those stories literary, so if that's not what you want to do, DON'T USE THOSE. It does us little good for me to force you to write a story looking through a completely different lens from what you want the story to me.
Also, like I said in class, I'd like the stories you write for this course to be original to this semester.
See you Tuesday!
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