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Your project is to write a short work of fiction. Even if you don't see yourself as a fiction writer, the fiction project will sharpen your skills for whatever kind of writing you do.

During the next few weeks, you will be working on two tracks.

Track A. As you can see from the following schedule, you will submit a special Fiction Project writing assignment each week.

Track B. At the same time, each week, you will work separately on the rough draft of your short story. You don't turn in your short story rough draft until Week 08.

Each special Fiction Project exercise (Track A) helps you develop and strengthen a different aspect of your rough draft (Track B), until the story is complete. During Week 08, Tracks A and B come together when you submit the rough draft of your complete short story.

Meanwhile, in a sort of third track, you will continue to write in your journal and practice different writing skills in the weekly exercises that will help strengthen your story as you work on it.

Track A - Fiction Project Assignment Schedule

Fiction Fundamental

Week

Step in the Project

Plot/ Conflict

Week 03

Outline a plot from your journal. Get the plot for your story from your journal entry that describes an experience of conflict, such as between friends. State the thesis or main idea behind the plot.

Character, Dialogue, Cultural Considerations

Week 04

Build character sketches of two of the main characters in action in your story. Include dialogue.

 

Setting

Week 05

Describe the setting where your story takes place.

Point of View, Style and Voice

Week 06

Choose point of view. Select a scene from your story and write it first from the point of view of Character A, using the "first person." Then write the same scene from the point of view of Character B in the "third person."

  Theme

Week 07

Incorporate theme. Write two possible endings for your story where you incorporate theme. Choose one of the details in your story to act as a symbol. (Example: a broken vase to symbolize a broken friendship. Or a statue of a famous woman medical doctor to symbolize a new independence.) Write Ending A to be too obvious and preachy about the theme. In Ending B, try to imbed the theme and meaning into the action and character - be more subtle!

Pacing, Diction, Allusions

Week 08

Turn in rough draft of short story.

 

Week 10

Peer reviews

 

Week 11

Turn in final draft of short story.

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