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.