Sumários

Character sketches

18 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

Start of character sketch WE (Writing Exercise), in pairs.


HW: Finish your character sketch as indicated in class. Around 250 words.
If you weren't in class, then produce this character sketch based on what you've learned from the assigned readings for this class (see last HW) and then do Ex. 1 or 2 from SCB20. Bring a printout/handwritten text to share with colleagues.


Plot and story structure

17 Fevereiro 2025, 15:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Initial peer feedback on story homework 

Introduction to plot and story structure
Three act and five act structure
Analysis of Google reunion advert and John Yorke's summary
Group work - creating an advert story with five act structure

Homework: Moodle Forum, writing type video and notes, excerpt reading (Sayaka Murata and Martin Amis)


Plot and story structure

17 Fevereiro 2025, 12:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Initial peer feedback on story homework 

Introduction to plot and story structure
Three act and five act structure
Analysis of Google reunion advert and John Yorke's summary
Group work - creating an advert story with five act structure

Homework: Moodle Forum, writing type video and notes, excerpt reading (Sayaka Murata and Martin Amis)


Plot and story structure

17 Fevereiro 2025, 09:30 Alexis Hannah Somerville

Introduction to plot and story structure

Three act and five act structure
Analysis of Google reunion advert and John Yorke's summary
Group work - creating an advert story with five act structure

Homework: Moodle Forum, writing type video and notes, excerpt reading (Sayaka Murata and Martin Amis)


Fiction Basics 1

13 Fevereiro 2025, 14:00 Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim

George Saunders "On Story"

Narrative Elements - SCB2
Narrator - SCB33
Fiction Basics - Plot, SCB3

HW: Reread SCB33; read SCB7-12; read SCB19-20 till end Leone story