Monday, December 15, 2008

Week Eight Greetings and Announcements

Missouri River at Brownville


Congratulations: We reach the term's conclusion.


Give the new video a listen, for I talk about the term's conclusion, which occurs for us on Monday, October 17.

Review the material here about the Short Story and the Final Project. You will get comments back on the Memoir/Creative Nonfiction and, I hope, some of the formal short stories through Sunday.

In addition to Fun with Words and your Short Story, you have a Final Project to complete, another Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction narrative or a Short Story. And then you complete as well your Final Video Project.

Remember that you have, as outlined in the Week Six Writing Assignment, two formal writing projects: the short story and the final project, for which you will write another short story or another work of creative non-fiction.

You must also complete your Final Video Project, which requires that you talk on a video published where I can watch it (and a link you should feel free to share with others) about a couple pieces you have written: suggest something about the genesis of these works and place them as much as possible in the context of what you read and discussed these past weeks.


I go very gentle on the Fun With Words and the short work with which you played last week, Nanofiction and Hyperfiction.


Just reading the stories by your fellow writers will inspire your imagination.

You have worked hard this term, and I appreciate your efforts.

Enjoy a productive week and a most excellent vacation, and I look forward to seeing many of you again in Spring 2012.

You might also enjoy watching and listening to Ellen Klages who visited campus last year at this time. If you want a copy of what Ellen Reads--"Ringing up Baby" and the final pages from
White Sands, Red Menace--just let me know, and I will supply you with the material.

Go well, Bill







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