ASSIGNMENT PROMPT: This project places you in the role of an author. You will have the opportunity to imagine, create, and explore in composing your own story. Below I provide you four different ways for you to try your hand at being a writer of your own literary work! Please only choose ONE of these options.
Four Creative Writing Options for Project:
1. Rewriting a Scene in a Novel Pick one to two scenes from one of the novels weve read this semester and re-tell it from another characters perspective. 

Questions to Consider:  It would be interesting to consider the story from someones perspective that we dont hear much from or dont necessarily fully understand.  What would they notice?  How would they be impacted by the protagonists actions and how would they feel about it?  I would also remind you that you can consider changing the point of view of the novel from 1st person to 3rd person or vice versa.
2. Rewriting an Ending to a Novel Choose one of the novels weve read this semester and re-write the ending. 

Questions to Consider: I ask that you stay in the point of view of the novel, and imagine an alternative way that the novel could come to a close.  What would be a different resolution for the main conflict in the story?  How would the characters relationships to each other be different?  How would the characters lives be different?

3. Creating Your Own Story Choose a certain place, time, and character whose story you are going to tell. 

Questions to Consider: What would be the major conflict or issue that protagonist is managing at this particular moment in their life?  Who would be the ones in their life either helping them or making this more difficult for them?  Remember, it is important to consider the age and background of the protagonist and how youre going to stay true to the way they see and respond to the world.  This is a short story, so you cannot tell the life story of a person, you must pick one particular conflict theyre encountering and determine one or two scenes of them coming to terms with it.
   
4. Create A Collection of Poetry Choose a particular theme that youre going to write a group of poems about or one very long poem about.

Questions to Consider: What is the greater theme that your poetry is going to be centered around? Will you be writing several short poems about the theme? Do you want to show someones journey with that theme?  Please consider that you can write one very long poem that spans four single-spaced pages with different parts or you can write several short poems to meet the page requirement.  Also, please remember that poems are composed of figurative language, details, and imagery.

PROJECT #2 ENGLISH 102 A CREATIVE EXPERIMENT IN BECOMING AN AUTHOR

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PAGE LENGTH  Prose (fiction, non-fiction, drama) 4 to 5 pages double-spaced              (at least 4 pages but no more than 5 pages)
Poetry 4 to 5 pages single-spaced (at least 4 pages but no more than 5 pages)

FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS The paper should be in MLA format with the following features: double-spaced content (single-spaced content for poetry) heading on the first page with student name, professor name, assignment, and date header on each page with students last name and page number 1 inch margins 12-size font in Time New Roman
IMPORTANT COMPONENTS TO CONSIDER:

Please remember that like the writers whose works youve read thus far that this writing exercise is NOT just a re-telling of an event, but that you should draw the reader in by your use of description, narration, dialogue, imagery, and other techniques.

You should work to include a title for your project.  Even if youve chosen option #1 or #2, you can consider what you would title these chapters in the greater book.

If youve chosen option #1 or #2 then you can only choose from the following list of works to rewrite a scene or the ending of: o Fun Home by Alison Bechdel o Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid o The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz o When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka o Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Finally, please note that students will receive in-depth feedback from the professor on their FIRST drafts ONLY. Afterwards, there will be writing exercises that everyone will partake in so they can develop their projects. Also, the professor will be giving a detailed feedback sheet to ALL students after they submit the second draft to help them in their revision process.
REQUIREMENTS OF FINAL DRAFT DUE ON MONDAY, MAY 18TH    4 double-spaced pages are due (single-spaced if writing poetry) Content from the second draft should be revised according to peer and professors feedback Submit electronic copy via our GoogleDrive Folder