story writing assignment

Choose and do one of the following exercises:

a.    Write a description of a rural landscape, a city street, or a room. Use only active verbs to describe inanimate as well as animate tings. Use concrete and sensory details to make the description come alive.

b.    Write about a boring situation. Convince your reader that the situation boring and that your characters are bored or boring or both. Fascinate the reader with your description of this boring situation. Use humor or other strategies. Do not use generalizations or judgments. Be specific and concrete.

c.    Write about one of the following and “Show” the rhythm and functioning of the subject through the language and structure of the prose: a machine of some kind, a vehicle, a piece of music, something that goes in a circle, an avalanche…something else along these lines?

 Use one or all of the results from the above exercises to construct a story. Include one or more characters in a place having some sort of situation. The story can be long or short. It can be in parts or include some kind of form or structure that is not linear. Etc. Type this up.