FICTION WORKSHOP 2
Reviewer:_____________________ Reviewed:_____________________
Reviewer:_____________________ Reviewed:_____________________
1) For the first step of today's workshop, exchange hard-copies of your rough draft with someone in your assigned workshop group and read their story from beginning to end.
2) Once you read your partner's entire story, create two Freytag Pyramids: one that traces the external conflict and one that traces the internal conflict. To this extent, in addition to clearly stating what the conflict (external and internal) is, you'll need to diagnose the crisis point (i.e. the moment the central character makes a decision), the falling action, and the resolution. If you're having a difficult time coming up with these aspects for your peer's story, this may be a solid indication that the story you're reading does not contain these elements.
3) If, then, the story you're reading does not contain these elements, write two paragraphs outlining particular modifications to both the main character's internal development and the narrative external development that will make it possible for these elements to occur within the story. If the story you're reading does contain these elements, write two paragraphs outlining particular modification to both the main character's internal development and the narrative's external development that will intensify, heighten, or make more engaging the the conflict that has been created.
4) Are there specific scenes within the story, or does the piece you're reading contain mostly plot summary? If what you're reading is mostly summary, write two paragraphs that offer suggestions as to where scenes can be developed and how. For example, where would the story benefit from dialogue, character description (both internal and external), and descriptions of the settings that offer reader's sensory information. If the story you're reading contains scenes, how could the elements of dialogue, character description, and descriptions of setting be further developed or re-written to make the story more memorable? Write two paragraphs explaining where and how that can be done.
NOTE: When writing your responses to your peer's short stories, make sure you incorporate specific concepts and terminology from Kercheval's Building Fiction. Likewise, when offering revisions to your partner's conflict and scenes, refer to particular examples from the selections we've read in Best American Short Stories during this genre cycle as models of justification for why you've made certain suggestions
2) Once you read your partner's entire story, create two Freytag Pyramids: one that traces the external conflict and one that traces the internal conflict. To this extent, in addition to clearly stating what the conflict (external and internal) is, you'll need to diagnose the crisis point (i.e. the moment the central character makes a decision), the falling action, and the resolution. If you're having a difficult time coming up with these aspects for your peer's story, this may be a solid indication that the story you're reading does not contain these elements.
3) If, then, the story you're reading does not contain these elements, write two paragraphs outlining particular modifications to both the main character's internal development and the narrative external development that will make it possible for these elements to occur within the story. If the story you're reading does contain these elements, write two paragraphs outlining particular modification to both the main character's internal development and the narrative's external development that will intensify, heighten, or make more engaging the the conflict that has been created.
4) Are there specific scenes within the story, or does the piece you're reading contain mostly plot summary? If what you're reading is mostly summary, write two paragraphs that offer suggestions as to where scenes can be developed and how. For example, where would the story benefit from dialogue, character description (both internal and external), and descriptions of the settings that offer reader's sensory information. If the story you're reading contains scenes, how could the elements of dialogue, character description, and descriptions of setting be further developed or re-written to make the story more memorable? Write two paragraphs explaining where and how that can be done.
NOTE: When writing your responses to your peer's short stories, make sure you incorporate specific concepts and terminology from Kercheval's Building Fiction. Likewise, when offering revisions to your partner's conflict and scenes, refer to particular examples from the selections we've read in Best American Short Stories during this genre cycle as models of justification for why you've made certain suggestions
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