Setting Journals, Quick Writes, and Other Assignments
Remember to write the date and the heading in your journal as you complete the entries.
Journal #1 03/13/13
Frozen
Upload the document below and complete the following prompt.
Take a page to create this much cold. Write with nouns and verbs, a bare minimum of adjectives or adverbs. Remember textures, tastes, smells as part of the atmosphere. Where is this? Who is doing without that car? Make your reader freeze.
Upload the document below and complete the following prompt.
Take a page to create this much cold. Write with nouns and verbs, a bare minimum of adjectives or adverbs. Remember textures, tastes, smells as part of the atmosphere. Where is this? Who is doing without that car? Make your reader freeze.
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Assignment for 3/14/13
View the video below
Journal #2 03/14/13
Reverse
In your Journal, write the numbers 1-4 or begin Numbering. Think of this as a reverse assignment. You are creating the prompts for something that has already been completed.
The following video is in four parts. As you watch, you are to create one prompt appropriate for each of four parts (for a total of four prompts) from which someone else could then take your prompts and use them to create their own four pieces.
In your Journal, write the numbers 1-4 or begin Numbering. Think of this as a reverse assignment. You are creating the prompts for something that has already been completed.
The following video is in four parts. As you watch, you are to create one prompt appropriate for each of four parts (for a total of four prompts) from which someone else could then take your prompts and use them to create their own four pieces.
Assignment for 03/15/13
Watch the video below Creative Writing Masterclass 4:Setting. Once you have watched the video, find a great location/ great setting around your house/yard/or town and describe it so that your reader can visualize the place you're describing.
Journal #3 03/18/13
Floor Plan
Draw the floor plan of the first house you remember living in (this can be in Word, Paint, or just on paper and scanned in as a doc.) Take a mental tour through this house, pausing (and marking on the floor plan) where significant events occurred. Walk through again, making a list of these events. Pick one of them and write about it. Pay attention to the setting and the atmosphere of the event. How does your relation to the space, light, weather, walls, furniture, and objects affect what you are doing and feeling? Does the place represent safety or confinement?
Draw the floor plan of the first house you remember living in (this can be in Word, Paint, or just on paper and scanned in as a doc.) Take a mental tour through this house, pausing (and marking on the floor plan) where significant events occurred. Walk through again, making a list of these events. Pick one of them and write about it. Pay attention to the setting and the atmosphere of the event. How does your relation to the space, light, weather, walls, furniture, and objects affect what you are doing and feeling? Does the place represent safety or confinement?
Journal #4 03/18/13
Elements
Pick some element of the outside world with which you have a special relationship. It may be a room, an object of furniture, a space, a plant, or an element of a landscape. Write about it. Do not tell us (your reader) how you feel about it, but choose your words, mostly nouns and verbs, so that we know.
Pick some element of the outside world with which you have a special relationship. It may be a room, an object of furniture, a space, a plant, or an element of a landscape. Write about it. Do not tell us (your reader) how you feel about it, but choose your words, mostly nouns and verbs, so that we know.
Journal #5 03/19/13 and 03/21/13
Out of Here
Write a page or two beginning with "Get me out of here." (It does not have to be in quotes, although it may be, if you wish.)
Write a page or two beginning with "Get me out of here." (It does not have to be in quotes, although it may be, if you wish.)
Journal #6 03/25/13
Looking through the Lens
Pick a scene from your childhood and describe it in three sentences: one long shot, one middle shot, one close-up. How much can you tell us about the feel if your surroundings in this short space?
Pick a scene from your childhood and describe it in three sentences: one long shot, one middle shot, one close-up. How much can you tell us about the feel if your surroundings in this short space?
Journal #7 03/26/13
Atmosphere
On the left is a list of times, places, and/ weather. On the right are words that represent a mood or quality of atmosphere. Pick one item from the left and one from the right. Write a poem or a paragraph in which you make the setting suggest the atmosphere. Do this again with another (different) pairing of words. If the connection is not obvious, your piece will be more interesting. Introduce a character if you please.
On the left is a list of times, places, and/ weather. On the right are words that represent a mood or quality of atmosphere. Pick one item from the left and one from the right. Write a poem or a paragraph in which you make the setting suggest the atmosphere. Do this again with another (different) pairing of words. If the connection is not obvious, your piece will be more interesting. Introduce a character if you please.
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the city in the rain
midnight on the farm 1890, in the parlor high noon on the river a spring morning in a restaurant, after hours the dusty road drawn in a foreign place |
sinister
sick with love full of promise suicidal dangerous suspense happy-go-lucky lonely |
