creative writing -- april 27

Write a story completely in dialogue.

First read the story, "The Hills Like White Elephants" by Earnest Hemmingway.

Now write a story that is almost completely made up of dialogue. Think about how people really talk. Make it seem natural. Reveal the action through the dialogue.

creative writing -- april 23

For your last assignment, you were asked to do some descriptive writing. For this assignment you will be incorporating descriptive writing into a previous assignment. The things you add to the writing must be clearly new.

creative writing -- april 19

Descriptive Writing

All types of writing incorporates some sort of descriptive writing. You assignment today is to pick several things in the library, in your backpack, etc. and describe them in minute detail. Please remember to post these to your blog--we will be referring back to these in a later assignment.

creative writing -- april 13

Choose a genre of story that you normally do not write in (science fiction, realism, fantasy, etc.) and rewrite one of your short stories into that genre.

creative writing -- april 7

You haven't had a poetry writing assignment in a while. Today you need to go find a poem that you like (there are many poetry books in the 800s--on the other side of the library).

In your blog post for today, identify the poem you have chosen. Then write your own poem inspired by this poem.

creative writing - april 5

Writing based on a visual arts.

Many pieces of writing are based on visual arts (paintings, sculptures, photographs). Choose a visual, add it to your blog (remember to cite where you got the visual from), and write something (a story, an essay, a poem, etc.) based on that visual.

If you want an example, there will be one on Ms. Arbuckle's blog (link in the sidebar).