This week you will write a FLASH FICTION piece to accompany one of the two photos you turned in two weeks ago. PLEASE, NO MURDER OR SUICIDE. DOING THIS WILL RESULT IN AN INCOMPLETE FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!
1. Choose one of the two photos you turned in for the story starter assignment.Choose one that sparks your creativity and takes you to another world. Imagine. Slip into your ‘imagined’ world. Look at that photo, where’s the entry point into the world of fiction? Is it the way the sky looks? The background? The facial expression? What’s the STORY BEHIND THE IMAGE?
2. We are ‘in the middle of things’? Remember folks, the picture is only a prompt, at some point you should veer off into uncharted territory. If your image were a single frame from a movie, what would the next scene be? What would the previous scene have been?
3. Write. Stories feel more personal and real when they are told by the person who actually experienced them. Use the FIRST PERSON. The character that is telling the story does not have to be YOU, in real life…but could be a 90-year-old man or whatever. Use a voice that stands out, and that sounds like a real person talking.
In 500 WORDS OR MORE, write a scene involving your character, their conflict, and the space around them. Do not try to cram a full novel in…Slow the pacing down, focus on this particular point in time; and write a short story. You might not know the whole story yet; you might just know the next frame (and that’s okay). Write the next frame!
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ADVICE :::
Don’t rush through this assignment, make it sound natural, as if it werespoken. PLEASE don’t make it sound like a ‘teen romance’ or vampire novel.None of this “but it was only a dream” crap. This is your voice, and should reflect your issues…open the door!
NOTE:
Put in as many sensory details (taste, touch, sound, sight, and smell) into the piece as possible.
Check your spelling and grammar.
DEADLINE:
FIRST DRAFT: Due on FRIDAY, April 15th.
The best pieces will appear alongside Kristina Koval, Christina Casimira, Tyler Raskin, Lynsey Gates, and Kristen Buehner on HowlHeritage.com/fiction.
MY EXAMPLE:
Deadbird Redbird, Published by Nailed Magazine.
Careful with that website, if you browse around you will find inappropriate content.
EXERCISE: PICK FIVE OF THESE IMAGES AND COME UP WITH FIVE DIFFERENT STORY LINES, ONE FOR EACH PHOTO. LEAVE EACH STORY LINE AS A COMMENT TO EACH PHOTO. THEN CHOOSE WHICH ONE YOU THINK IS THE BEST AND DO THAT FOR YOUR FLASH FICTION STORY.
HOW TO TURN IN YOUR FLASH FICTION ASSIGNMENT: Upload Google Doc and turn into Google Classroom. Next week we will critique our stories.
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