Creative Writing II Schedule, Summer Online, 2010

 

Below are reading and exercise assignments due for each week. Because this schedule is flexible and subject to change, and because it's a workshop course, it's vital that you check for updates regularly and keep up with current announcements. Be sure as well to check your email frequently.

Week 1, June 14-18
  • Introduction to course. Read our Homepage and browse around our Blackboard to thoroughly familiarize yourself with its contents.
  • Browse around Skittish Libations.
  • Post a self-introduction to Blackboard, in the Weekly Exercises area.. Include brief discussion of your favorite quotation from Skittish Libations.
  • View Power Point titled, Introduction to Course and Warm-Up, and then complete warm-up exercise, located in Blackboard Weekly Exercises .
  • Post finished warm-up exercise in our Blackboard Drop Box, before Monday the 21st if you can.

Week 2, June 21-25

  • Read Carver's, "Cathedral."
  • Read O'Brien's, "How to Tell a True War Story."
  • Read through Style to get a sense of how different writer prose styles can be.
  • View Power Point titled, Fiction.
  • Get a start on fiction exercise sheet, if you like. (See Week 3.)
  • Check your email and/or our Blackboard Virtual Workshop for anything your classmates may have submitted for discussion this week. Using the workshop form, offer some feedback on their work and post it to the Blackboard Virtual Workshop. And feel free to submit something yourself!!!!!! You should always be working on your own independent stuff.

Week 3, June 28-July 2

  • Read, in Story Matters, "The Cures for Love," p. 109, including conversation with writer.
  • Read, in Story Matters, "After I was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned," p. 177, including conversation with writer.
  • Read flash fiction samples (pay attention especially to those with an * by their name).
  • View Power Point, More About Fiction.
  • Complete fiction exercise sheet, located in Blackboard Weekly Exercises.
  • Check your email and/or the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for anything your classmates may have submitted for discussion this week. Using the workshop form, offer some feedback on their work and post it to the Blackboard Virtual Workshop. And feel free to submit something yourself!!!!! You should always be working on your own independent stuff. NOTE: even though we spend the first half of the semester doing exercises in fiction and the second half of the semester doing exercises in poetry, you're free to produce any kind of independent work you like at any time for your chapbook.

Week 4, July 5-9

  • Read, in Story Matters, pp. 2-60. Skim material which isn't particularly useful to you, and read carefully any material which is.
  • Visit Writer's Link, then complete Writer's Link exercise, located in Blackboard Weekly Exercises.
  • Post completed Writer's Link exercise to our Blackboard Drop Box.
  • As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers, and be working on your own stories, poetry, and/or creative nonfiction.

Week 5, July 12-16

  • View Power Point titled, Poetry.
  • Complete "The Luminous Object," exercise, located in our Blackboard Weekly Exercises.
  • Post your finished Luminous Object exercise to our Blackboard Drop Box.
  • Read Bishop poems.
  • Read Merwin poems.
  • Read Edson poems.
  • Read Simic poems.
  • As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.

Week 6, July 19-23

  • Read Hoagland poems.
  • Read Bidart poems.
  • Read Wright poems (especially "To a Blossoming Pear Tree," "Northern Pike," "A Blessing," "On the Skeleton of a Hound," "A Poem about George Doty in the Death House," and "At the Executed Murder's House." )
  • Complete exercise sheet on readings, locaded in our Blackboard Weekly Exercises.
  • Post your finished exercise sheet to our Drop Box.
  • As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers. REMEMBER: even though we spend the first half of the semester doing exercises in fiction and the second half of the semester doing exercises in poetry, you're free to produce any kind of independent work you like at any time for your chapbook.
Week 7, July 26-30
  • Read all of your Pinsky text.
  • View Power Point, Form in Poetry.
  • Read short-short poems online: Click here.
  • Read online: Kooser.
  • Complete form in poetry exercise, located in our Blackboard Weekly Exercises.
  • As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.
  • Friday, July 30 : DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING AT LEAST TWO ITEMS FOR YOUR WORKSHOP CREDIT.

Week 8, Aug. 2-6

  • View two Power Points, Spoken Word Poetry and New Media Literature.
  • Complete spoken-word or visual poetry exercise, located in our Blackboard Weekly Exercises.
  • As always, check the Blackboard Virtual Workshop for submissions by your peers.
  • Remember that you need to submit AT LEAST 2 Workshop pieces before the semester is finished.

Aug. 9

  • Chapbook due by midnight, instructions TBA.
  • Portfolio due by midnight, instructions TBA.
  • Exceptions to these due-dates are possible only with documented evidence of serious hardship or illness.

 

 

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