Slapping together a short story, already a page over....

[icarus]

Okay, assignment's in. Thanks for your help and suggestions.

I hated this (fragment of a) story, but sometimes you just have to put something on a page to do the assignment. Chatted with the professor after class and sure enough, the point was just to get a sample of our writing.

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Thank you.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

1. Done

2. Took out the food thing. Actually, the story is about the kids, but there's no way to tell until the end. It's the ignored kids who end up making the call about the dog since they're only ones who know the guy stole it. They more or less decide that the old man deserves the dog more than neighbors.

3. The cartographer is a bit of a nut who has nothing but the neighbor's dog, to which he becomes very attached. He begins buying dog supplies (even though the dog's not his), playing with the ignored dog, and eventually when the neighbors sell their house -- he steals the dog rather than lose it. I put much more description of the cartographer into it, and made sure we got that he was attached to that dog.

Thank you. The story doesn't work without being finished, but it needs more than the allotted two pages (I'm already a page over). I know he just wants to see our writing styles, but I'm pretty bored with the assignment.

Icarus

Re: Thank you.

[mad_maudlin]

Bah, tell a story in two pages? Why are creative writing teachers so often nuts?

(There's a CW prof at my school who assigned a friend's class to "write a one-page novel about a superhero dressed as a ham.")

Re: Thank you.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

He said just to give two pages of a story, you didn't have to finish it. I chatted with him after class and, sure enough, it was really a way to get a writing sample out of each student so he could get a sense of where we were.

Icarus