Week 15: Story Lab

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Open Yourself Up to the Possibilities of Story

  • The author talks about how one prompt can be the basis for a million different stories
    • Girl gets on a bus...
      • And the story could be about a bomb, Rosa Parks, etc. 
  • “Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation.” ― Lorrie Moore
  • As an aspiring author, this short article was inspiring and a great reminder that all a story needs to be great is creativity and someone to chase down the prompt
  • The author uses an (annoyingly long) run-on sentence to describe his interpretation of time (capital T). 
  • Time is powerful because it is relevant
  • Article brings u an interesting idea that words, themselves, are time
  • “The novel is time’s child. The novelist can never do otherwise than work with time, and nothing in his novel can escape it,” writes Eudora Welty in her fascinating essay on the subject, Some Notes On Time In Fiction. It’s one of the most interesting discussions on time and place, and the subjectivity of time in fiction.
Time & Tea  (From the article about time)

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