La-la-last class workshopping work

Kassandra

Maryann

PUBLISHING!

Here's everything I know.

March 23: W-w-w-w-w-w-w-ork hopping

Janice

Janet

Maryann

Ross

DON'T BE NERVOUS: REVISION

1. The frog is talking to the baby. He begins, "Don't be nervous."

Now what?

Write for five minutes.


2. Go back. Add  more details to your sentences. Instead of editing to make shorter, edit to make longer. Try to double the length of your initial writing by adding to the length of your initial sentences. Add words WITHIN your sentences. Add sentences WITHIN you paragraphs.

Write for five minutes.

March 16: Work for Shopping to Ship shape

Janet

Janice

Kassandra

Justin Part 6; Part 7(assignment); Part 8

Leo Tolstoy

Maryann

Work to workshop March 9

Maryann: Some novelly stuff

Janice: Some chaptery bits from a novel

Janet: A bunch of writing which tells a storything


NOTE ABOUT LAST CLASS'S ASSIGNMENT IN CASE YOU WEREN'T THERE OR NODDED OFF, OR IN A SELF-PROTECTIVE MOVE AGAINST COMPLETE BOREDOM, DELIBERATED FILTERED OUT MY PSEUDO-COMMUNICATIVE RAVINGS

We disusseed discuddwd discusd  Last class, the subject was revision. We did a number of writing activities based on revision. The assignment is two-fold. The first part of the fold (like cuffs on khakis) is based on revision.

1. Choose 1-2 pages from your novel-in-progress. Try to edit the excerpt to be half as long as you originally wrote it. It is remarkable how much you can leave out and still convey what you want. In fact, leaving out many connectives, descriptions, or elaborations often involves the reader more, makes the writing have more energy, and moving in a more dynamic way. Try it, you might find that you like it.

2. Ok, so this doesn't involve you doing revision in the beginning. Choose a short 2-5 page excerpt from your novel-in-progress and submit it to me. I will read it and offer editorial prognostications and pontifications which you may consider in revising the passage.

MMMMMMMMMMMMarch 2nd Wwwwwwwwwworkshoping

Janice: Chapter

Kassandra: Edit 4.4

Maryann: First Person draft