Omg Blog Posts and Seeing Different Stories

Stuff from last time:

Your blog posts are beyond fabulous. Like, wow. 

How am I grading creative blog posts? Great question.

Organization: 1-4 points
Creativity: 1-4 points
Grammar, Usage, Mechanics, and Spelling: 1-4 points
Requirements: 1-4 points
Blog: 4 points

Good feedback RISES!

Reflection: "I like what you did with X because..." 

Inquiry: "Have you considered looking at X from perspective Y...?" 
Suggestion: "You might consider tweak X for effect Y..." 
Elevation: "Perhaps you can expand X to further address Y..."

What do you see? Talk about it. 

"Dream Theory"

This artist is great, check him out here.

Abstract thinking is tough. Luckily we have some helpers:

1) Motif - A recurring theme, subject, idea, etc. especially in literary, artistic, or musical work; a dominant idea or feature. Underneath it all, what do you keep returning to? Is it subtle? Is it blatant?

2) Allegory - A representation of something abstract through a concrete image. Not everything is what it looks like. How are ideas being displayed in your work? What images do you want to represent ideas? Does it work? 

When talking about creative writing, we're also talking about vision. Seeing. Why is this? That's really all creative writing is. Vision in storytelling is knowing where you want to take the reader and where you want to take yourself. Sometimes, starting with nothing but a blank page can be daunting. Beginning writers can always use some outside help. That's why we have art, other authors, each other, whatever else helps us create! 

4th Period:

Choose your own inspiring photo, picture, comic, etc. Analyze it like we just did. What do you see? Are there recognizable motifs? Are there any allegorical elements? 

Based on what you've found, write a short fiction (between 200 and 500 words) using an element of what you see. Write a story that bounces off a part of the picture, be it an idea, image, stretch, anything! The point is to using visual art to produce creative written vision. Blog this by the end of class! Post the picture you've chosen along with the story you're attaching to it. 

Remember that you're not telling the story of the picture, but building your own story off an aspect (or two or three) of the picture!

Finished? Start another one. Blog it. 

HOMEWORK:

Choose another image you're fond of and by next class (Thursday, March 6th), post a series of 10-15 hint fictions (25 words or less) built on aspects of the image you've chosen. Proofread your blog posts! I can't stress this enough!