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Final ProjectGalactic Bunty Hunt by Mattayoi Montgomery
Story Presentation
Final ProjectClass Presentation “Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.” –Octavia Butler, Sci-Fi writer Story Choose a 5 minute reading of the best scene(s) of your story read aloud to the class. Practice reading to get the right tone, and pace. You may begin by giving a general context, like “My character
Final Story
Final ProjectDue April 26 “Great Stories happen to those who can tell them.” –Ira Glass Scope Your story should have at minimum a beginning (turning point) , middle (climax) and end(resolution). Rough text length should be 7-10 pages of text, plus at least 5-6 images. More would be better, depending on story needs. You can use
Task 12
Task 12Images “The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal experience available or permitted to the members of society. The person then takes off on a series of adventures beyond the ordinary, either to recover what has been lost or to
Task 11
Task 11Resolution “Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.” —Robert Olen Butler, author Description After the climax, where the protagonist act on her truth and defeats the antagonist, the context of the story changes. The resolution describes how the external scene to the protagonist changes as a result of the character change. In sum, it wraps
Task 9
Task 9Character Transformation Personal transformations are always at the heart of strong character arcs. Our protagonists are faced with trials that force them to acknowledge their own inadequacies and then, usually, change their ways in a manner that allows them to overcome both their faults and, as a result, the bad guy. — K.M. Weiland Description
Task 10
Task 10Climax Description I’ve always loved the films where it’s like you’re building up to something, you’re getting a drip feed of mystery and tension and suspense, and then all of a sudden you flick the first domino and it just free-wheels until the climax of it. That was something I’ve always been drawn to. Gareth
Task 7
Task 7The First Draft–Feedback & Revision If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didn’t realize the teacher was saying, ‘Make it shine. It’s worth it.’ Now I see revision as a beautiful word of
Task 6
Task 6The First Draft “The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling and tiger-trapping.” — Ray Bradbury “Every first draft is perfect because all the first
Task 8
Task 8The Crisis/Dilemma The crisis is that essential moment where the character must make a choice. The two formulas for a great dilemma: Best Bad Choice or Irreconcilable Goods. –Joe Bunting Do a 15 minute “free writing” exercise describing your story crisis moment. Think about the questions below for a bit, take some notes to get
Task 5
Task 5The First Plot Point Your First Plot Point needs to be preceded by a strong decision on your character’s part , [but] almost always something that upends the character’s plans… The First Plot Point is something that happens to your character. It knocks his world off kilter and shakes his equilibrium all to smithereens. It
Find Your Character’s Ghost
ResourcesFictionalize one of your own wounds or traumas and give it to a story character to explore.
Task 4
Task 4Using your story idea from Task 3, develop the protagonist’s “ghost” by answering all the question from Find Your Character’s Ghost. Next describe both the normal world of the protagonist ( and maybe how it reinforces their “lie” and then the adventure world which forces them to confront that lie.
Task 1
2024Honesty and Courage If you’re going to write…you have to be willing to do the equivalent of walking down a street naked. You have to be able to show too much of yourself. You have to be just a little bit more honest than you’re comfortable with… -Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline To practice
Create Good Fiction-Writing Habits
ResourcesA handy set of ideas, tools, and strategies to jumpstart your fiction writing
The Lie that Culture Believes
ResourcesCollapse Will Look Nothing Like in the Movies B Collapse as depicted in movies. Photo by Natalya Letunova on Unsplash Modern — overdeveloped — societies in the West are already in a severe crisis. Something, which will eventually turn into a long global emergency in the years and decades ahead. A five centuries long era
Great Transition 2
ResourcesWhat Can You Tell a 17 Year Old Who’s Afraid of Dying from Climate Change? Part 2 What to learn, how to think, how to live Steve Genco Another screen grab from the video game Fallout 4, This is how many young people today imagine their future. I originally published this post as one long
Great Transition 1
ResourcesWhat Can You Tell a 17 Year Old Who’s Afraid of Dying from Climate Change? Part 1 How to live a meaningful life in a time of turmoil Steve Genco A screen grab from the popular video game Fallout 4, a favorite among gaming youth. This is the post-apocalyptic view that greets survivors emerging from