A List of Major Assignments
Please include a cover letter with your fiction assignments!
- Twenty Quirky Things -- check out the inspiration for this assignment, my sample, and the rubric
- Letter to Your Younger Self -- an assignment based on the book, What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self. Here is the assignment and rubric, along with my sample.
- Stranger than Fiction: a contest!
- Setting: A Restaurant Review -- check out the assignment and rubric, and read some examples online (or this one from the New York Times)
- Indirect Characterization -- we will model our assignment after Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"
- Direct Characterization: Dialogue or Eavesdropping -- you have lots of choices for how to approach this assignment
- Point of View: Slanted Character Sketch or Eavesdropping -- again many choices for this assignment
- Conflict: As you tackle your conflict piece, remember Burroway's advice that desire + danger = drama!
- Parody: A holiday letter -- make us laugh with something outlandish-yet-frighteningly-realistic!
- Independent Project: You choose the genre... then plan your work and work your plan!