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Creative Writing

Creative Writing. Thursday, October 27, 2011. Today’s Targets. Discuss and understand the criteria of an effective short story Create your own short story. Word of the day from dictionary.com. mesmerize MEZ- muh - rahyz , verb :

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Creative Writing

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  1. Creative Writing Thursday, October 27, 2011

  2. Today’s Targets • Discuss and understand the criteria of an effective short story • Create your own short story

  3. Word of the dayfrom dictionary.com mesmerize \MEZ-muh-rahyz\, verb: 1. To spellbind; fascinate.2. To hypnotize.3. To compel by fascination. • What a joy it was to mesmerize his audience, delight them, sell them the medicine, trick them.-- Jeffery Deaver, The Vanished Man • “This gentleman," said Fraisier, darting at Schmucke one of those poisonous glances wherewith he was wont to mesmerize his victims, just as a spider mesmerizes a fly...-- Honoré de Balzac, The Human Comedy

  4. Journal Write http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/09/beautiful-black-and-white-photography/

  5. Today’s Tasks • Pre-write checks • Continue journal checks • Drafting • HOMEWORK: Drafts due by next Tuesday at the start of class.

  6. Deadlines • Draft due next Tuesday, November 1 • Finals due Friday, November 4

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