The Creative Process

Monday, April 21, 2014

Practicing the Sentence:

1. Write the shortest possible action. Try to be like Hemingway and write an entire story, or at least a scene, in six words or less.
  • Hemingway's challenge:  For sale: baby shoes, never used.

2. Write a page long sentence story, in which you try to imitate Donald Bartheleme's "Sentence" or Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl."

  • "Sentence"
  • "Girl"

Posted by Professor A. at 5:00 PM
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