Thursday, February 28, 2013

Fiction Workshop Guidelines




Read the work and give feedback in terms of the elements of poetry and fiction that we’ve talked about. You can offer suggestions, comments, positive feedback, and critique (what’s working and what could be stronger, etc?). Write on the work and mark places in the text that you want to address.

Language (mark places where the language used is dynamic and interesting, and places where it
could be revised to be stronger, etc)
Concrete and sensory detail
Description
Imagery
Metaphor/simile
Sound (of language, sound that is evoked through the language
Visual (line breaks, stanza breaks, use of white space on the page, etc)
Syntax
Look out for abstract, cliché, “overused” language and offer suggestions to make these
places stronger


Think about all of the above elements of poetry in terms of the fiction writing. Also, comment and give feedback on the elements of fiction writing:

  Plot (situation, conflict, “drama”)
  Setting
  Character(s)
  Dialogue
  Narration, point of view, verb tense and general writing style, etc.
  “resolution” or ending

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