Hero

The Writers Studio – Level 2b, Assignment #8?, December 1, 2008
Preamble: 3rd person to allow distance. Omniscient with restraint working against strong emotion. Describe character with telling details. Show multiple perspectives. Mood: sympathetic, Tone: descriptive. Persona narrator example is “The Mother” by Marie Howe.
Hero
His [...]

Read Full Post »

robot

The Writers Studio – Level 2b, Assignment #5 October 20, 2008
Preamble: 1st person, past tense. Older narrator looking back with confidence. Pick specific object from past and describe it. In process revealing how narrator feels about a significant relationship or time. Feeling is not from what is told [...]

Read Full Post »

hunger

The Writers Studio – Level 2b, Assignment #4
Preamble: 1st person, present tense. Put two people in a potentially dangerous situation. One being the narrator who understands the danger. Tone: reportive, Mood: ominous, dark. Lots of drama and mood.
hunger
Fire burning, never ending,
pieces glowing, plane no more.
Gone the pilot, and co-pilot,
they were lucky, [...]

Read Full Post »

waiting

The Writers Studio – Level 2b, Assignment #3
Preamble: Entertaining description of a place I wouldn’t have thought to write about. A place I have strong feelings about, maybe unpleasant. Not judgmental. Narrator doesn’t talk about himself but reveals himself through the description of the place. Either 1st or 3rd person. Have joy of language (don’t [...]

Read Full Post »

Proverbs 30:19

The Writers Studio – Level 2, Assignment #8 July 7, 2008
Preamble: 3rd person narrator describing the author as a character. Let my imagination run free. Description of character set in an action. Use lists. Play with language. Invent a word. Tone: tongue-in-cheek boastful, light, Mood: futility.
Proverbs 30:19
When Matt Lee comes up with a
new theory of [...]

Read Full Post »

One

The Writers Studio – Level 2, Assignment #7 June 30, 2008
Preamble: 3rd person patient narrator with empathy showing good and bad. Camera far out but mobile with telephoto lens. Use lists and language. Tone – ?, Mood – ?.
One
glowing swirls,
immense
trotting yellow blotches,
thousand miles each
dust outlined forms,
three dimensional
foreign skies,
[...]

Read Full Post »

communion

The Writers Studio – Level 2, Assignment #6 June 23, 2008
Preamble: 3rd person. Celebrating a dark repulsive scene, describing something ugly but showing beauty.
communion
They came from all over,
from hiding under rocks
to those out in the open.
Drawn to his body,
even while he still clutched to life.
Dark worms.
Some started at his hands,
burrowing through pristine flesh.
Others went straight [...]

Read Full Post »

Windex

The Writers Studio – Level 2, Assignment #5 June 16, 2008
Preamble: 1st person, judgmental/opinionated narrator. Engaging and revealing. Making a big story out of something small. Have fun. Tone: conversational, close. Mood:
Windex
The 16th floor rose towards me like clockwork. If I start on 20th then work my way down I reach her by 11:30am. [...]

Read Full Post »

Independence Day

The Writers Studio, Level 2, Assignment #4 June 9, 2008
Preamble: 1st person narrator revealing themselves. Narrator interacts with a character that represents a path not taken. Use scene to convey mood (not so good here). Switching genders for story impact.
Independence Day
Fireworks went up like kamikaze rockets. One after another. They are born. Rise up to great [...]

Read Full Post »

New Books

The Writer’s Studio Level II – Assignment 3 June 2, 2008
Preamble: 1st person narrator in a present tense younger voice. Charming, captivating, quirky voice (missed that). Almost unreliable. Let it flow. Reveal. Tone: reporting in young voice, Mood: longing, reminiscent
New Books
It is typically the last stop in my weekend shopping mall pilgrimage. It is
where [...]

Read Full Post »