Instruction
Plot structure
- Point of view/perspective
- Tone
- Style and figurative language
- Characters
- Dialogue
- Themes and symbolism
Try to accomplish the following in your short story:
- More than one character
- Dialogue between these two characters (following grammar and formatting rules)
- A detailed description of an object/person
- Adherence to Freytag's Pyramid (your story has a clear exposition, inciting incident, climax, and denouement)
Some ideas/prompts to get you started:
- Consider genre (realism, science fiction, fantasy, speculative, romance, horror, etc)
- Write an emulation (creatively interpret the style of a favorite author)
- An interpretation or fictionalized account of a real life situation that happened to you (a vacation, a holiday, a confrontation, an accident, a breakup, a birth, a death, a weird situation)
- A family story, a rumor, or an urban legend
- A character study (focuses mainly on one character and their development)
Your short story can be related to your flash fiction piece due last week.
Please remember to double-space your fiction submissions.
Due Friday, October 15, before our workshop weeks begin.
Do not forget to also upload either your flash fiction piece or short story to your corresponding Workshop Group on or before 10/15.