Post your story structure exercise or your prompt-based story here for comments, or ask questions about story structure and plot. Feel free to comment on each others' ideas and questions, too!

Post your dialogues from in class here. Please include the names of both writers, and explain which writer is "voicing" which character!

Carefully chosen details can reveal character in fascinating and different ways. Details allow you to "show" your reader something about the character, rather than "tell" about the character.

You've written 5-10 lines about your character being "the sort of person who..." Now...

Post your TWO best phrases here on the forum.

Some student examples from the book What If:

** He wears ear plugs to bed even when it's sex night.

** He is the type of person who once a month calls a travel agency and finds out the prices of flights to places like Tanzania, New Guinea, Bangladesh.

** Will Greene is the sort of person who always has to be the better looking one in a relationship.

** Mary is the sort of person who gets cast as a tree with two lines, and becomes the most interesting part of the play.

The Dating Game! - as your character

This forum is to introduce your characters - please write as your character!!! Use the information you learned from the lists you created (the lists prompt is here). Your character should give the sort of introduction that someone might give on a dating show - not just facts like name, age, and occupation, but some narrative that gives us a sense of who they are. (And no, this doesn't mean your character is actually looking for a date; but that should give you a sense of the type of introduction you should offer!)