Hi.
Your stories are due Thursday morning. Before class. Not after class. If you give me a story late, you'll lose points. It's pretty simple, but you already knew that. Recall the requirements from the blog last class. If you can't remember, scroll down and check.
Today is the last day you'll have to draft in class. You should have a fairly complete story. A few of you gave me copies for review. Check out my comments. I'm available for individual writing help, so don't hesitate to ask.
If you're struggling with ending your story, check out these tips:
1) Your ending should definitely be related to the rest of your story, it should tie it together. It can be however you want it to be, as long as it brings everything back together.
2) If you have no idea what to do, write several endings. Free write, brainstorm again, re-read your work.
3) Write in concise sentences. Remember, this isn't a beginning. It's an ending. Avoid going into great detail while trying to end. The end should be final, even if the story is to be continued.
4) Go back and proofread your entire story. I cannot stress this enough. It is likely that most of you will end up losing points for punctuation, spelling, grammar, usage, and mechanical mistakes. They're easy to miss, so you must read through your work. This is an incredibly important part of the writing process.
Clearly, you have until Thursday to finish your stories outside of class. Thursday (before class) they're due. By then you will have a published piece of work for me to read! If you're at all curious as to what I'm going to use to grade your stories, click here. Hint: it's a rubric.
Now write!
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