READING: For Friday's class, please read pages 109-121 in Telling True Stories, and pages 271-278 in Best American Essays (2005).
WRITING: In addition to more formally incorporating today's in-class writing assignments into your 1-page, single-spaced anecdote of a mundane or common-place event, extend the narrative so that it reaches the 2-page, single-spaced mark. Do not continue on with the narrative, but instead, develop, enhance, and intensify your current anecdote by incorporating highly-specific and descriptive writing that offers readers a detailed, sensory experience from both long and short narrative distances, as well as cultivating a more thorough context. To this extent, think about when long-range, mid-range, or short-range distance would best serve your piece. Likewise, incorporate small bits of dialogue in order to reveal something about the narrative voice and its relation to another character.
REMINDER: Your 1-page, single-spaced responses to last Saturday's reading are due at the beginning of Friday's class-session.
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