Narrative Voice - A Close 3rd : Toni Morrison's Jazz

Greetings, Class Community.



Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.



In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.



Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

 Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

The best close third person narrative voice can witnessed by reading the opening chapter of Toni Morrison's novel Jazz.

 - http://www.deviantart.com/digitalart/?view_mode=2&order=11&q=toni+morrison

                            

Below is a short reading of the first page. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ValYBIaUuXs

Non-Fiction Julianna Baggott

Greetings, Class Community.



Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.



In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.



Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

  Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

Julianna Baggott..

"Julianna began publishing short stories when she was twenty-two and sold her first novel while still in her twenties. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, she published her first novel, Girl Talk, which was a national bestseller and was quickly followed by The Boston Globe bestseller The Miss America Family, and thenThe Boston Herald Book Club selection, The Madam, an historical novel based on the life of her grandmother. She co-wrote Which Brings Me to You with Steve Almond, A Best Book of 2006 (Kirkus Reveiws)."

Literary Murderer

http://books.google.com/books?id=VyxT5lpSbxgC&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=julianna+baggott+non-fiction&source=bl&ots=R9PJLb8pQb&sig=0icJCQCeP4hsONpOv-lVyIrbTG8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=7X5LUui9CoPEyQG4uYC4BQ&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=julianna%20baggott%20non-fiction&f=false

Mark Twain - How to Tell a Story

Greetings, Class Community.

Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.

In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.

Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

 

Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

Mark Twain - How to Tell a Story 

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3250/3250-h/3250-h.htm

http://www.pdftitles.com/book/11250/how-to-tell-a-story-and-other-essays

http://readfwd.com/mark-twain-how-to-tell-a-story-free-ebook-download-24

Writing Manhood and the Uncomfortable in Memoir

Greetings, Class Community.

Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.

In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.

Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)

 

Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

Writing the uncomfortable...

"Novelist Michael Chabon opens up about his experiences as a husband and the father of four in his new book of personal essays, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father and Son."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128087770

Tips for Writing Suspenseful Stories

Greetings, Class Community.

Over the past several weeks we have discussed a number of creative writing strategies and techniques for you to consider as you revise the stories you submitted for workshop.

In addition to improving a specific writing technique, I would like to consider how theories associated with 'remix' impact your work. For example, Assignment 3 asks you to use social media as an influence or as inspiration for your story.  Many of you created very interesting stories.

Consider the how would you like them to be displayed in their final form. In addition to the changes you will make to your story in order to revise it, consider what are the remix aspects of the assignment. Think in terms of digital tools, new literacies, and what makes what you are writing specific to contemporary intersections of history and technology.


I am going to list a few links that you may find helpful in your revision/remix re-writes ;)



Please feel free to add to the list by including additional links you may find helpful in the comments box.

This link is from Writer's Digest, "9 Tricks to Writing Suspense Fiction".

"While some might think suspense writing is tough to pull off, it’s worth noting that the genre allows the writer a number of freedoms not afforded to the mystery writer. Suspense writers can employ multiple point-of-view characters. They can present the bad guy and his motivations to give the reader insight into his character. This allows the writer to perfectly pit his antagonist and protagonist against each other. Mystery writers can’t do this. .."

http://www.writersdigest.com/qp7-migration-conferencesevents/nine-tricks-to-writing-suspense-fiction