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English Extension 2 Question Thread
theyam:
--- Quote from: darcyynic on December 19, 2017, 09:55:19 pm ---Hi! I was just wondering what the best way to investigate into form is. I'm doing a short story but don't know what materials to start with. I have a concept in mind for my story but I don't know how to work on it from there. Do you have any advice/ reading material you could suggest? Thank you so much! XOXO
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Hi~
My teacher gave me this handout called:
'The Shapes of Fiction' from Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern
W.W. Norton and Company
New York & London: 2000
It was quite helpful for me personally even though I'm not even writing a short story (I'm analysing a novel and film) It goes through form techniques that can be applied to your own writing and in my opinion provides some pretty eye opening tips.
Good Luck~
elysepopplewell:
--- Quote from: darcyynic on December 19, 2017, 09:55:19 pm ---Hi! I was just wondering what the best way to investigate into form is. I'm doing a short story but don't know what materials to start with. I have a concept in mind for my story but I don't know how to work on it from there. Do you have any advice/ reading material you could suggest? Thank you so much! XOXO
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Hi! I used and highly recommend John Marsden's Everything I know about Writing. I also referenced other short stories that I thoroughly admire. I also read and referenced Edgar Allan Poe's Philosophy of Composition (essay) which is quite old school but it had a few things to mention. I think George Orwell texts like Politics and the English Language and Why I write might also be useful, depending on your angle!
icedragon66:
I know that students don't get the raw marks for their major work, but does our school get them?
mxrylyn:
Would it be too much to have major work taking place over 1.2 days with a large amount of flashbacks and also short anecdotes about the protagonist between the chapters?
TheFreeMarketeer:
--- Quote from: mxrylyn on January 20, 2018, 12:42:24 pm ---Would it be too much to have major work taking place over 1.2 days with a large amount of flashbacks and also short anecdotes about the protagonist between the chapters?
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The events in the Catcher in the Rye take place over a course of three days, so this definitely could work.
Thing is, 1.2 days is a very specific number. If you're comfortable with sharing a little more about your concept, plot and so on, maybe it might be easier to judge.
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