February 23rd
Our first task
will involve brainstorming and mind-mapping techniques to forge a clear
storyline for our tale. I will bring some templates and some techniques that we
can use to try and develop a clear outline of where the story is headed and who
our main characters are [i.e. what kind of people are they, what kind of roles
will they play, and what purpose do they serve to our deeper meaning?]. We will
also explore the five main elements of a short story – Conflict, Theme, Plot,
Setting, & Character. We will look to generate some new ideas and try to
develop an overall schema for the entire story.
March 2nd
Our second
task will involve proof-reading the text he has already produced. We will aim
to look for and correct minor problems with his grammar, sentence structure,
tense usage, and word choice. We will also look to edit how he incorporates
character dialogue as this is fairly inconsistent within his writing. I would
like to teach him how to review his own writing in terms of using proper
pronouns by asking himself the questions; who or what am I referring to? And is
this clear from my sentence structure? I am hoping that through this
instruction he will be able to improve his writing not just in this piece of
work, but in all future endeavours as well (because it sounds like he intends
to go on to become a fairly prolific writer).
March 9th
Our third task
will involve putting these elements together and working on further developing
our main characters. As mentioned earlier, Mr. Harder has spoken about the need
for identifying and developing the self in all our writing. As Prince is
attempting to write from the perspective of a female character, this is a new
and unknown realm for him and will require some fine tuning. Our aim for this
session will be to improve upon our presentation and to attempt to incorporate
a consistent representation of the characters we have encountered thus far.
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