Writing Galore

 SNOW = STUFF!

We spent most of our day today responding to work posted on the blog over the last week. 

You all spoke your minds and really helped your fellow writers! 

Ellie, congratulations on being able to inhabit the body and mind of a character so unlike herself. So unlike herself that it scares her to write. Your job this week is to re-write, for clarity, your first section. 

Logan, we talked about sadness and how some people do not see their lives as happy enough, even though we see them as charmed lives. If you're sad, it doesn't matter that you work in Willy Wonka's factory or one of the better restaurants in Reno. You just don't see it.

Eleanore, we talked about the power of your story's terror. It wasn't fueled by "Red Bull;" more like "a small up of coffee." Sophisticated terror--not as bloody as you can get it; instead, a former friend, encircling a dying man, within the circle of decaying buildings, under a full moon. Chilling!

Jacob, your ability to find a way to write--something to inspire you--inspired us. It's so good and HARD to inspire YOURSELF to write.  Your pine cone autobiography reminds us anything can be a good subject! I told you, "You successfully PLAYED with language." It's so good to play. Like when you practice guitar, you need to spend some time just jamming, fiddling, hanging out with your strings. Same with words.

Cody, you've been loving up your dad! Yay for you! We look forward to reading something this week!

Some of you have ideas to pursue this week. 

Eleanore, your book.

Logan, your scary hour before sleep.

Cody, your 100 ways to do tricks on skis--something like that!

Ellie, your chicken.

 You all picked scenarios out of a bowl. 

A subject, a scene, an object.

None of you knew you all picked the same scenarios! 

Ha! I tricked you:

A 12-year-old boy

A river

A backpack

I told you to write this scenario in 3rd person.

 Most of you would have rather been outside playing, but here you all were, working hard on writing. 

Off you went to private parts of the house to write.

We came back together, read aloud the stories, laughed at how DIFFERENT they were...and then

began again, this time from 1st person point of view.

 Logan, Jacob and Cody re-writing their scenarios. 

How different these stories were from each other AND how different they were as we switched perspectives.

 Ellie and Cody re-writing their scenario from 3rd person to 1st person. We really connected with Ellie's character in the first person. "I" has a certain power, doesn't it!

 Eleanore, writing her scenario in first person. It's sooooo sad, given both perspectives. Wow. How powerful it is for the reader to know what will happen to a character.

Assignment:

Write 10 minutes a day on your new or favorite project

DO NOT POST UNTIL YOU EDIT YOUR PIECE for spelling, clarity. 

This means:

1. Read it aloud to yourself and be your best editor

2. As Eleanore says, have another pair of eyes read it.