2. For Next Week Workshop? Workshop? Look at more Fiction Project options. Look at more Fiction Project options. Two readings (see schedule). Two readings (see schedule).Today Review perspectives. Review perspectives. Finish “Sonny’s Blues” and “Cathedral.” Finish “Sonny’s Blues” and “Cathedral.” Look at a couple project options. Look at a couple project options. Workshop. Workshop. Selected weirdnesses. Selected weirdnesses.

3. Reviewing perspectives…

4. An escape from reality; a sedative or distraction Formalist Art An affirmation of reality The improvement of reality The invention of reality A confrontation with reality; facing reality Defiance of reality; reality as it ought to be (possibly mocking?)

5. The honoring of tradition Formalist Art A mode of perception A pile of crap; a hoax; excuse for not having a REAL job A commodity The subversion of tradition Self-expression; solely for self ; exploration of one’s unique vision Something produced solely for others; a means of pleasing an audience Emotional or psychological therapy

6. So: what are YOUR aesthetics and standards of judgment? What will be the standard of judgment in this class? (Maybe I’ll ask you that at the end of the term)

7. Look at Fiction Project Option #3

8. Plot Traditional: –Exposition –Narrative question –Complicating actions –Pace (what speeds up pace? what slows it down?) –Structure –Devices: flashbacks, framing, foreshadowing, O’Henry Twist Nontraditional: –Multiple intersecting plots –Plot made up almost entirely of flashbacks –Circular plot –Non-plot: episodic approach (Alain Robbe-Grillet) pure interior monologue montage Consider: Momento, Slackers, Etc.! Alternative ways of experiencing and understanding TIME!

9. Look at Fiction Project Option 1 Expectations and tips for this option. If you were to do the written equivalent of what Pecker does…what would you be doing?

10. What is the difference between an essay or expository prose and a story? Essays generally have a thesis, are primarily factual and reflective (not dramatic), are “narrated” by the actual author, and are usually structured as traditional, a-temporal arguments. Stories don’t have a thesis, are primarily dramatic and fictional, are narrated by an invented character, and have temporal structures. For Option 1, you are to draw heavily on fact and autobiography, but still write a piece of fiction, a short story.

11. Don’t confuse a first-person narrator of a story with the author of the story!