Here's a quick description of how to approach this weeks assignment. Your focus in this work of fiction is capturing specific details with with you're intimately familiar, but then changing the perspective of the main character to reveal these details in a different light.
Writing represents a complex interplay between author, audience, and artifact. As a teacher, my goals are to help students identify their personal writing goals, illustrate the importance of social and cultural considerations that affect genres, and then guide them in preparing works that will resonate with readers. The lesson plans shared here represent several years of my teaching.
Showing posts with label voice sketch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label voice sketch. Show all posts
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Writing the Voice Sketch
In my experience, one of the most difficult parts of writing a voice piece is finding a way to capture a unique voice without exaggerating that voice to the point of disbelief. And the two pieces we read for class cut a very fine line here, managing to capture some of the extremes of local dialects without inflicting a cliche.
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fiction,
IFP,
military,
point of view,
voice,
voice sketch
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