1. Creative writing - NG Session 3

2. First, a flash-back! Blog – status…. Writing games… Submissions…

3. Writing game 5 Create a piece of travel writing based on random words and phrases you have ‘found’ in the field… Draft one should incorporate all the ‘found’ phrases and words Re-writes should be done until the piece sounds ‘natural’ and not ‘random’ Post on blog

4. Data-ingredients for next week 1 overheard conversation 3 species of birds 2 brand names for food Text from 4 signs The name of a planet or a star The name of a lipstick 1 time of day The title of a book The title of a painting The name of a dead politician 2 types of vegetables 3 items from a hardware store A make of gun

5. Submissions Playful, humorous Genre-bending (or quite outside the genre) Narrative Personal Fictional

6. Problems Naturalness vs Randomness: –Narrator(s) –Incidents (plot) –Setting –Beginning/Ending –Topics/Subject matter –Characters

7. Data-created restrictions Subject matter: Food, Tools, Birds, Gun, Dead politician, Titles (painting, book), Planet/star Character (gender): Lip-stick Character: Overheard Conversations Narrator(s): ? Setting: Signs, Time of day Title What was the most difficult thing to work into the text?

8. Strategies Change of meaning Puns Lists Two languages Focus on plot Focus on humour Absurdism

9. Parody and pastiche Intervention into a pre-existing text Intentions: –Parody: to ridicule –Pastiche: to imitate, flatter, expose Tonality: –Light, not serious in parody –Neutral, in pastiche

10. Where to intervene? Speakers Subjects/topics? Metaphors and other rhetorical strategies Other personae Mood, tone…

11. William Shakespeare - Sonnet #18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And oft' is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal Summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

12. Writing game 6 Write an intervention into Shakespeare’s sonnet Either a parody or a pastiche Re-write at least a few lines, or the whole poem You have 8 minutes!

13. Hypertext What is hyperfiction? Words, images, sounds, links  connectivity, webs, Difference from other (narrative) media (novels, films, plays)? Non-linear texts, non-linear reading experience, interactivity, openendedness…

14. Hyperfiction – recent examples http://www.thejewsdaughter.com http://www.hum.aau.dk/~i12bent/Hypertext.html http://www.clearblock.net/ Signal to Noise Opening Sources

15. Writing game – four games in one! Write a short text (100 words) using only words from your active vocabulary (prose, poem, fiction or non-fiction). The topic is reading or writing – pleasures or dislikes thereof. Exchange with your neighbour. Take your neighbour’s text as your starting point. Use a dictionary. Find all nouns and replace each noun with the seventh word after the noun in the dictionary. Correct syntax when required. Give the text back to its original owner. Revise the text you got back so that you find it interesting, horrifying, beautiful, truthful – yours. Post on blog if you feel like it. Post both ‘before’ and ‘after’ texts.