For Dec 5

1. Read Cameron's "Sketching" plus other essays (on myemich) and write your blog response on these.

2. Finish the TERMS (new terms are highlighted and the list is posted on myemich): find an example of a use of each highlighted term from a poem or story we read for class); bring your finished list of terms to class.

3. Fiction Writing Exercise: Boring Situation (on myemich)

4. Fiction Workshops: use the Fiction Workshop Guidelines + think about sentences (structure, length, wordiness or tightness, syntax) to read and give specific feedback, comments, and suggestions on the stories for everyone in your group. If you don't have a copy of the stories, find your group members' stories on their blogs (listed on the class blog page) and bring printed copies of the stories with your comments on them for next week.

Workshop Groups:

1.   Sammy, Jodi, Kendall, Bekkie F., Sarah, Alyssa, Nicole, Richard, Venus, Craig

2.   Kari, Jake, Becky K., Christina, Justin, Randy, Megan, Rebecca, Keegan, Amber

For Nov 28

Post a story of your own (from one of the exercises) on your blog (as soon as possible) and then bring 11 copies of that story to class on Wed, 11/28. This should be a story you did not share already in class. After you post your story please read your classmates' stories on all of the other blogs in preparation to discuss them on the 28th. Please also use the Fiction workshop guidelines that are posted on myemich to think about how to respond to the stories.


We will workshop the stories in two large groups (instead of all as a whole class) on the 28th. 

Final Assignment sheets (publishing assignment, fiction portfolio are posted on myemich; fiction writing exercise: N + 7 is forthcoming on myemich) .

Wed Nov 14

Please see syllabus for assignments

You should remember to bring 2 copies of 1-2 stories to share/turn in; and come prepared to discuss the stories in fiction packet 3 (and write your blog on a few of the stories).

I will bring addtional reading (a la Lamott) to class

Also, last week I handed out Fiction Exercise: Vocabulary; see myemich for a copy.

EMU Bathhouse Reading Events in Nov

 See more info at: http://www.emich.edu/english/creative-writing/readingseries.php

2012-2013

Roosevelt Hall (EMU campus)
4-6 p.m.
November 28 and 29, 2012.
Directions: http://www.emich.edu/walkingtour/roosevelt.htm.

November 28th will be a reading featuring Dimitri Anatasopoulo, Camille Roy, and Rachel Levitsky.

Then, join us on the 29th for a panel discussion with our presenters moderated by our own Carla Harryman entitled: Intersections: Community, Politics and Art.

for Nov 7

1. Fiction Packet 2: Thalia Field's story A . I from  Point and Line

2. Read the following stories (listed by author) from Wreckage of Reason: Foos, Reeves, Lillis, Treat, Jackson, Natov, (Mazza,) DeLuca, Tupitsyn, Shope, Ben-Oni, Doller, Brenner, Cain, (Brennan,) (Hoang) (stories in parenthesis are optional); we will have an in-class writing assignment on these reading assignments so come prepared to write about them and discuss.

3. Write a blog response on at least 3 of the stories from Wreckage of Reason

4. Creative assignment: Choose 4 postcards, spend 15 minutes writing down everything that comes to mind when you look at the postcards laid out in front of you. Be specific and use significant and concrete detail. Start writing and don't stop for the full 15 minutes. Then, look at the material you have generated. Construct a story from the material that include one or more character(s) in a place, in which something happens (any smallest or large thing; situation;conflict; or etc). Write the story, feeling free to add or subtract details and information from the original writing as you see fit.


We will talk about the midterm evaluations and other assignments in class.

Election Info

Links to Info about ballot proposals on Michigan ballot:

http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/political/what-michigan-voters-need-to-know-about-the-6-ballot-proposals

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Statewide_Bal_Prop_Status_145801_7.pdf

http://www.crcmich.org/

for Oct 24

Your Poetry Portfolio is due. Please see assignment sheet on myemich and follow instructions.

Read the Fiction Packet 1, Lamott (Polaroids, et al.), Bernstein (Attack of Difficult Poems) all on myemich.

Start working on the Description Fiction Exercise and we'll talk about this more in class on Wed.

Write your blog on any of the above reading, unless you already wrote about Lamott last week.