Sunday Gather Writing Essential June 10, 2012: Dead Week SunWE

Dear Gatherwogs:

This week is Dead Week.  (The Final Exam is next week.  JUST KIDDING!)

If you’re still working on last week’s prompt (Symbols, Memoir/Observer Narration), here’s the article to refer to.

I really suggest you take a few minutes and click on the live links provided,

• to the many examples of the techniques we discuss,
• as well as the reader contributions.

An example can be worth a thousand explanatory words.

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And here are the topics we’ve covered so far if you feel like taking a crack at any of those, hyperlinked to the relevant article:

Poetic Devices

Hyperbole

Onomatopoeia

Allusion

Personification

Simile

Metaphor

Narrative Point Of View

Detached Autobiography

Subjective Narration

Diary Narration

Letter Narration

Dramatic Monologue

Interior Monologue

The Prompt:

Keep working on what you’re working on for this column.

If you don’t have anything in the hopper, choose one of the above techniques and employ it in a poem, story, or essay. Refer to the relevant article, and do click on the examples.

• Put SunWE in the title and tags.
• Indicate in some way which devices/techniques/figures I should be paying attention to.
• Deadlines are open.  This prompt does not turn into a pumpkin a week from today.  If you’re piece isn’t done by next Sunday, get it in when you can.  This is supposed to be fun.
• I will comment on every submission and include a link to it in the next column.
• If you would like a little more academic critique--but still very friendly and positive--include the word "rigorous" in your post (e.g. "rigorous critique wanted").

Here are the responses to last week’s and previous prompts.  Let me know if I missed yours.  I hope you can take a few minutes and read some of the other submissions.

Affectionately,

Doug

 

Symbol

A Day In A Life by Sam Henderson

Memoir/Observer Narration

Scarlet Letter by Pam Brittain

My Friend Jack the Slipper by DW

Several other reader submissions anticipated this topic and are linked to in last week’s column.

Detached Autobiography (I missed this one.)

Self-Awareness by Deborah Anderson

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