Write a paragraph reflecting on the process of composing and revising your fiction draft:
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Discussion Assignment 1
Your Writing Process-Fiction
Write a paragraph reflecting on the process of composing and revising your fiction draft:
- Which step did you find easiest?
- Which step did you find hardest?
- What have you learned from the process of writing this fiction piece?
- What will you do differently when writing a piece in the future?
Your posts should be thoughtful, substantial, and properly proofread before posting. Each post should advance the conversation and share insights.
*The initial post must be 300-350 words
Discussion Assignment 2
Rewriting Your Beginning:
For many writers, the first draft of a story’s beginning is just an attempt to figure out how to get started or its the introduction to the story you originally planned to write, but maybe not the story you ended up with by the time your first draft was complete. This discussion board offers an opportunity to revisit that beginning. Please cut and paste the beginning of your story to a separate document. For this exercise, you are asked to write two additional (different) beginnings to your fiction draft. Play around with perspectives, dialogue, setting, etc. You are free to implement whatever changes you want but I encourage you to experiment with the various techniques you learned from your readings this week. The key is to end up with three very different beginnings (the original one and then the two new versions).
- Once completed, post your original beginning in one discussion post.
- Post your two new introductions in two separate discussion posts. You will have a total of three initial posts.
- Your reply to peers will consist of your “liking” whichever of their beginnings you feel most effective and then offering a brief response as to why you chose that particular version.
- NOTE THAT YOUR REPLY TO PEERS IS DUE ON SATURDAY FOR THIS BOARD INSTEAD OF THE NORMAL SUNDAY. This is to give your peers time to implement changes to their revised draft in response to feedback from peers.
- Check back to see which of your introductions your classmates “liked”.
*The initial post must be 200 words
*( Discussion Assignments 1 and 2 is due tomorrow at 11:59pm ET So Start them first)
Peer Responses for Discussion 1
respond to each of the two students and use 150-200 words when responding. Start of by saying (Hello name)
Juan
When looking at the five writing process steps, and the pondering of the following questions. Which step did I find the easiest? Which step the hardest? What I Have learned about the process of writing in this fiction piece? Concluding with what I would have done differently?
The first question, my internal dialoged would argue that the most difficult part with deep in the jungle was prewriting. While writing deep in the jungle, I pondered about two or three different stories. All of which had a realistic tone to it. I found the hardest part being the wondering or exploring my fiction creative side, instead of a more literal take on it. Due to my knowledge as a wildlife photographer I was able to create a story from an animal point of view, about how deforestation affects creatures around us. In the process of writing specially the Prewriting, I learned that the most effective tool for my personal imagination, was being knowledgeable about Bird/wildlife migration patterns and habits. All of which allowed me to branch into the realm of impossibilities by combining some facts and knowledge about birds natural tendencies with the mixture of my personal fantasy. I originally wanted to write about a deer/buck and a hunter; However, I wasn’t diverse enough in their natural tendencies that I struggled to quite something that at the end of the day I felt satisfied with. Pondering my end product, my only desire would have been to focus a litter more on the ending, I felt that I might have rushed the ending or left it in a cliff hanger. Without taking the proper amount of time to deescalate the plot or provide further information. But I also wanted to leave enough suspense for the reader to get creative regarding the end outcome. I also originally wanted the birds and the construction worker to friend one another, ultimately ending in a betrayer from construction workers after the finished clearing the forest; however with the allotted amount of words, and a busy work schedule, I felt as if I couldn’t cover the major points in the plot with the allotted word count.
Traci
For this particular assignment, the easiest step in my writing process was the rough draft. I got a fully formed idea in my head, raced to my desk and wrote four pages in a couple of hours. I was able to turn off my inner editor, and just let my fingers fly. When I was done, I saved it without re-reading it and walked away, looking forward to revision. Much to my surprise, revising and editing this piece is proving more difficult than I thought. There is a gap between what is in my head and what I put on the page, and I am finding it difficult to bridge that chasm. Harder still is putting it up for peer review. Although I look forward to reading constructive feedback and incorporating it into my work, I am experiencing some anxiety over this step. However, the amazing and prolific Stephen King once said, “ Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” I take this to mean that the initial writing should be done by the author alone, but the revision process can and should include feedback from others. This is my takeaway from this lesson. I rarely share my work with peers, unless I am assigned to, but I want this to be a new beginning for me. Sharing my work and taking feedback could help me take my writing to the next level. Going forward, I will share my work with those I can trust to give me honest, constructive criticism, and I will strive to listen with an open mind.
Peer Responses for discussion 2 Assignment:
respond to each of the two students and use 150-200 words when responding. Start of by saying (Hello name)
(The students didn’t post their Discussion Posts yet. When they do I will send them to you so you can respond to them)
Peer Review responses for Fiction essay Draft
Answer the following questions when responding:
- Are the elements of the plot on clear display?
- Is the setting well established?
- Are the characters clearly developed?
- What is the narrator/point-of-view and does that particular choice seem most effective for telling this particular story?
- How are symbols employed in the narrative?
- Is there a clear theme – how do you know, where is it made apparent/how might it be more apparent?
- Which Elements are most successful? Which Element (or Elements) might they more heavily emphasize or address?
Please remain encouraging, point out what is working well, and provide ideas for improvement.
*(look at Traci’s comment’s on the fiction draft you did as an example of what to do for the peer review response)
*(The two students Fiction Draft essays are attached below. Traci and Lauren)
Assignment 1
Continue work on your fiction draft this week. Utilize the comments from the professor and your peers to develop, clarify, add to, and revise your fiction draft.
When you submit your Revised Draft on Sunday please highlight all of the changes you implemented between your draft and your revision so as to clearly demonstrate the adjustments that occurred as a result of the revision process.
(*Traci’s comment’s on the fiction draft you did is attached below. she also wrote this first)
I very much enjoyed reading your draft. I attached a copy of your story with some suggestions that I hope will be helpful. Your story has great elements. The plot is heartbreaking yet hopeful, and has some strong suspense to it. I found myself wanting to know more about your characters. How old are Tony’s younger brothers? When Ben was wailing with hunger, I wondered if he was a very small child, or was he closer to Tony’s age? Was he young enough to get tired out, would he beg to be carried by his older brothers? I wanted to know something more about their mother, maybe through a brief scene or a bit of dialogue. I also wanted to know how their father died. “Mysterious circumstances” leaves it up to the reader to guess, but maybe an unusual or especially tragic death would build even more sympathy for the brothers, and perhaps their mother.
I was confused about when the story was taking place, maybe you could add a detail near the beginning that would make that stand out? When you mentioned orphanages near the end, it made me think that this was taking place many years ago, when I originally thought it was taking place in the present. Either way, the plot and characters still work, it just makes me see things a little differently.
You have some strong material to work with here. I hope I will get to read the final version when it is complete.
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