The purpose of this exercise is to have you apply psychological concepts to the reading and writing of narratives.<\/p>\n
Overview: The purpose of this exercise is to have you apply psychological concepts to the reading and writing of narratives.
\nFlash fiction refers to very short stories \u2013 narratives between 300 and 1000 words in length. These are genuine stories with characters, action, goals a setting, and conflict. Your task is to write a flash fiction story drawing upon the readings in Module II: Narrative and Metaphor, followed by a brief essay outlining how you used the readings to develop your story, and a further analysis of your story using concepts from the readings. Thus, the assignment has three parts. Below are the details of each particular part. Your work will be evaluated using the rubric that follows.
\nPart I: a Flash Fiction story of 2-3 pages, no shorter than 300 words and no longer than 1,000 words. Since this is not a creative writing course I will not be judging the quality of your story in a punitive way. If your Flash Fiction story meets the minimum requirements of the assignment you will receive 100% A+ credit for this portion of the assignment. However, I will assign bonus credit to a few tales that are especially creative, thought provoking, moving, or otherwise exemplifying quality flash fiction. Your stories should have characters, action, goals a setting, and (as Jerome Bruner has said) trouble. In addition, the story should make creative use of a metaphor that invites the reader to make a comparison or categorization. The purpose of this requirement is to better align your stories with psychological concepts.
\nIt will probably help if you write your story after reading some of the books and articles for this module and apply some of those concepts in creating your story. Below is some further information about Flash Fiction from online literary magazines.
\nAbout Flash Fiction (From Flash Fiction Online information for contributors)
\nTo maintain interest among the general public (and many writers) we need to publish stories, not just vignettes.
\nStories have characters. Characters have personalities, and they make us care about them. Ideally they aren’t merely stereotypes. We prefer stories with strong, interesting characters.
\nStories have plots. The general reader sometimes reads \u201cgreat\u201d literature and says, \u201cwhat was that all about?\u201d I am more interested in the general reader than in the student; more in the acclaim of a thousand readers than
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\nof a single professional critic. Stories we publish must have a goal, a conflict, a change, a realization, a death, a birth, an \u201ca-ha!\u201d moment \u2014 something that happens, something that matters, even if it only happens in the mind of the reader.
\nGood Advice About Writing Flash Fiction (http:\/\/www.fictionfactor.com\/guests\/flashfiction.html)
\nSources of Flash Fiction (not to plagiarize, of course)
\nFlash Fiction Online (http:\/\/www.flashfictiononline.com\/)
\nAesop’s Fables, the granddaddy of all Flash Fiction (http:\/\/aesopfables.com\/)
\nPart II: A first person description of how you applied concepts from the course readings to writing and revising your Flash Fiction. This should be a straightforward accounting of your deliberate thought process. You needn’t embellish because you will have the opportunity to apply concepts that you didn’t use in Part III below. This section could be anywhere from one paragraph to 5 pages in length depending on how much the readings actually inform your creative process.
\nPart III: A third person analysis of your story applying concepts from the readings to criticize, illuminate, or explain aspects of the story. This analysis may include things that you might have done differently or better. You may also discuss why it would not be a good idea to apply some concepts from the readings. Be sure to bring in readings from each class of Module I. For the purposes of this assignment those readings are designated as:
\n(1) The Storytelling Animal Chapters 1-3
\n(2) The Storytelling Animal Chapters 4-6
\n(3) The Storytelling Animal Chapters 7-9
\n(4) Zunshine (2006) Why We Read Fiction
\n(5) McCloud\u2019s (1993) Chapter 3
\n(6) Pinker’s Chapter Five in The Stuff of Thought p. 235 \u2013 278.
\n(7) Bowdle & Gentner (2005) Structure Mapping and Metaphor.
\n(8) Glucksburg & Haught (2006) On the Relation Between Metaphor and Simile.<\/p>\n
Readings included in Part II need not be included in Part III and together parts II and III should be about 5-6 pages of typed, double spaced text plus references with everything in APA format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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