tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68901161267792338192024-03-13T04:45:46.333-07:00CREATIVE WRITING NOTESJOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-62481411757673683932018-08-12T06:49:00.003-07:002018-08-12T06:49:46.494-07:00<br />
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NOTES</span><span style="color: #215868;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">John on our visit to Victoria Park</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Why are there so many magpies here?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t move away when I lie down (as
crows would) and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there’s one which
squeaks as it jerks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but then doesn’t
quite fluff out its wings . Just a few steps now, left, right, left,
right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A quiver of a scratch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now in profile staring somewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ding gong ding dang!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Leaves on the grass are blowing along like little
wheels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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find her from the taxi in the square.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Now everyone’s arriving, and driven off all the
birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a woman in a wheel chair
with a child in the sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She holds her
hand to shade her eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t see
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sounds of children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Round and round us is the moan of traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quite loud and yet you don’t hear it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now some sort of howl like a cleaning
machine, sucking, moving, nagging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
makes a bicycle silent – as if flying on the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now hammering, each hammer blow doubled by
an echo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A few minutes ago we came through lists of the
glorious dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To here, this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The careful red and yellow beds of
flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think they spoil the
place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gaudy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look how bright and shiny and well arranged
we are!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A little boy is getting into the bottom of a tube
slide and climbing up, two boys, one squealing down to meet the other, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who’s watching now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A seagull.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tall
neck and prim and thin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White at the back
of the eyeballs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Legs moving but no
rhythm carried through the body -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like a
cartoon character’s walk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">A pine tree long since fallen sideways but still
growing almost lying down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone’s
chopped the lower limbs off, zigzag round the trunk now, only four or five
boughs left, at the end of the tree, slightly across the path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How firmly embedded in the dust and leafy
ground it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Ah here comes Christina, flying just above the
branches of the pine-tree with her white nightdress spreading out like wings
and a tail,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very slowly,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lying in the top boughs of the pine now with
eyes so blue that when you look you think you are looking right through them,
through her head, and hair, into the blue sky beyond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then without warning the folds of white are
lifting away from the twigs and she’s dissolving back up into the clouds
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I find I am holding a choc-ice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Then as I hold it, dribbling a bit, the choc-ice is whisked out of my hand and there is Sharon's chair lifting into the sky and witchy cackling sounds fill the sky. </span></span></div>
<br />JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-42393871823119244952018-08-12T06:44:00.006-07:002018-08-12T06:44:58.467-07:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Write about a page of dialogue,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>focusing on two people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can do this as fiction or drama.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think about the overall kind of ‘speech’ acts
that are going on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You could have one
person talking to the other, along the lines of:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-63971237013175804512018-06-09T03:47:00.005-07:002018-06-09T03:47:54.432-07:00People session 3 Poetry<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Poetry (1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">All poetry began as
song, song which gradually managed without the musical accompaniment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some poems are still called ‘lyrics’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Usually poetry is
written in lines, so that there is some sort of repetition involved, line from
line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most straightforward repetition
is that of sentence pattern.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
method is used in the Psalms in the Bible, and elsewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s a passage from the famous Song of Solomon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I belong to my beloved, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and his desire is for me. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Come, my beloved, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">let us go to the countryside, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">let us spend the night in the villages.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="p2"></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Let us go early to the vineyards <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">to see if the vines have budded,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">if their blossoms have opened, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and if the pomegranates are in bloom- <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">there I will give you my love. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Some poetry uses rhymes to mark the ends of the lines. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">And there was the lovely
Christina<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">By God you should have seen her<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some poetry uses
alliterations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many for each line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Lee looked at the line<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perfect polish helmet pigeons<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Some poetry uses just the number of beats and/or syllables
per line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This last is a common one to
us because Shakespeare uses it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Oh what a rogue and
peasant slave am I<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">says Hamlet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten
syllables per line, and five of them stressed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Oh <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">what </b>a <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">rogue</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">p</b>easant <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">slave</b> am <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Five beats and five non-beats and they alternate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Di-dum, di-dum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">This is the so-called ‘iambic pentameter’ which is in fact the
commonest of all in English poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
can add rhyme to it as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The rhyme marks out the ends of the lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Wild Gabrielle once took me for a
drive.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">I came back pale of face but
still alive<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Or you could measure out the line by the number of stresses
(beats) only.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Ed</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">die’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ship </b>is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">home </b>at <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">last i</b>n its <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">har</b>bour.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Now </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">he has <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one home</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">one wife</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">In modern times, since the early twentieth century many
poets have decided not to measure out their lines, and simply make the them sound
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in some way</i> parallel to each other,
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in some way</i> musical.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You could just follow the natural pauses in what you’re
writing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Deborah was sucking a soft
chocolate log<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">and closed her eyes<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">and groaned <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Also poets tend to like repetitions of sounds and patterns,
apart from using them to mark out lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Note<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>repeated sounds in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">suck, soft, choc, log.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">All this -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lines and
sounds and so on – is connected to the general point that in poetry the writer savours
the sound of the language as such<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">FOR NEXT WEEK OR AFTER</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Either<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">(1) Write a poem called:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Someone in Trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use any
type of line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">(2) Take any sentence or passage from the paper and mark the
beats (stressed syllables)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Imagine you
had to beat a drum in time to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Linda Hillborne was arrested last night for dangerous
flying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She suddenly glided out of her
bedroom window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Or do both<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-67252342824675165882018-06-09T03:41:00.002-07:002018-06-09T03:41:35.662-07:00People session 8<br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 100.15pt;"><span style="color: #215868; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent5; mso-themeshade: 128;">The person in the possessions </span></b><b style="text-align: center; text-indent: 100.15pt;"><span style="color: #95caca; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">Describe
a person by talking about their possessions</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Possessions tell us about people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are obvious dramatic things to with
wealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A wealthy person is ‘expressed’
by the design of their yacht or private jet, or by the cut of their expensive
(usually) clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all of us</i> are expressed by our
possessions, and often the more humble is more interesting, especially if
you<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>think of loved ones -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dad’s old battered hat, his fountain
pen,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his model ship, his favourite cup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We think of such things, often, when we
think of someone now dead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">Describing possessions is valuable in giving
atmosphere to a piece of writing, and also hinting a character and age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George’s treasured paintbrush which once
belonged to Van Gogh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can also use
possessions as symbols for ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your
husband’s favourite viper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your wife’s
statue of a weeping angel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You could approach
describing a person’s possessions (some of them, that is) by creating a
situation in which:</div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">The writer or a
character is alone in someone else’s house waiting for them and looking
round.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could be a friend or complete
stranger. Might sneak into the bedroom or study.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;">A researcher is looking
(as in a museum) at surviving possessions of a person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could be doing with this a son or daughter of
the person who can give anecdotes about the things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He always used to put this on his head when
he was drunk.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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checking the house of a person who’s been found dead, or who has gone wild in
the street and broken windows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finds an
unexpected collection of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looking for a particular object, or just sifting through to see if there’s
anything valuable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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scandalous about the person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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when they’re out or asleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pockets,
handbags,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>attic,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>desk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dream going back to your childhood room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Just describe all the things there and we’ll know you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can see (and this is just a list) a small
dinky toy aeroplane which Father Christmas brought me and left at the side of
my bed,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>several wartime planes I’ve
carved and then hung from the ceiling on cotton so that they’re ‘flying’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>are </span><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">some luminous china
rabbits on the dressing table, and a copy of The Children of Cherry Tree Farm
for Dad to read at bedtime. Aircraft recognition books. A penknife. Grandma’s
opera glasses used as field glasses to see planes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘My’ dog George sleeping under the bed. A
Spitfire diagram on the wall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-30545734649095060902018-06-09T03:39:00.000-07:002018-06-09T03:44:43.019-07:00People 6 Monologue<br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write a monologue
which shows a person in a difficult situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In some ways we can see her better than she can see herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as yet we don’t know fully what the
situation is. She is speaking to herself, but also gradually revealing what’s
happened, happening, bit by bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A monologue is when
one person tells a story, often as part of a play, or it can be a whole short
play as in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or it can be written down as a story or poem, or as your diary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The term ‘talking heads’ was original tv
jargon for too much talking on the screen, not enough action.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quite lets us know what she’s thinking, and when she describes how she speaks
to the police she always answers indirectly and slightly aggressively. But <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we </i>begin to feel she’s being defence. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can only suspect what’s happened, until
right at the end when<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her husband is
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write a
monologue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to do something
which would suit tv, you’ll need to spend some time describing what the view
will see. what the speaker is doing as she speaks, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which way she is looking, or what sort of
music is in the background.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or You can
do that simply by writing a piece of description, making it a story or poem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>SHE PICKS UP A TEDDY FROM THE SOFA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">I don’t know what happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do I know what happened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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IN TEARS<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 20.0pt;">This could happen in different ways<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">I used to love you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I don’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>love you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what’s happened?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Have you done something to hurt
me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Has something happened to change
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Have I realised you weren’t the
person I thought you were?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">I’m bored with you?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Have I realised I didn’t really
love you in the first place?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Have I changed my idea of what
‘love’ is?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stopped loving <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">me?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 20.0pt;">What kind of love
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A kind of ‘romantic’ love to do
with physical attraction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Love that’s not primarily to do
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Love between mother or father and
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Non-sexual love, say between
friends<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Love of God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">One kind of love may, of course, change
into another -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for example as married
people grow older or ‘grow together’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write a fictional letter or diary
entry in which someone explains how they no longer love someone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Or the ditched one’s
letter or diary entry in <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>response.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">How can you make the piece into a
whole, that is, with an end which pulls everything together and yet is
unexpected?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just ‘April fool!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 36.0pt;">6 Loss of Love theme: A Lie</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write something about a lie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could be a lie you once told, a lie told
to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or you might discover a lie
someone has been telling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Why would someone tell a lie?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Is it to protect themselves?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">To gain something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">To deceive someone into doing something?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Imagine someone you’ve always admired as a hero or
heroine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After almost a lifetime you
discover that their heroism never happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They made it up, or it was someone else.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The medal in the little glass cabinet is a fake, or earned really by
someone else who happened to have the same name.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Or the lie could be something about your long dead father or
mother, or even you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Maybe it’s something that’s always inspired you, or
something that’s made you feel second rate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">They don’t know you’ve found it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s the reason you’ve invited them for
a drink or to supper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Now you can confront them with it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did they do it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s their reaction?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe yours is quite different from what
you’d expected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Or maybe you are put in a position where you have to tell
someone something which will hurt them very much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Someone about a relative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Something about your feelings towards
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some way in which you’ve deceived
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe only you know about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You intend to break it to them, because that’s the honest
thing to do to keep your relationship with them honest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as you talk you find it hard to do
so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your problem is whether to summon up
your determination and tell them the truth, or to save their feelings by
telling a lie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">But then imagine that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">already
know, </i>and see how now <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">you</i> are the
liar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Loss of Lover, Partner, Relative, or Friend</span></b></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt;">Obviously I wouldn’t want you to write on this
if you’ve recently had a loss, although
you might well find it healing even if you don’t show anyone what you’ve
written. But different people have
different attitudes.</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt;">You can write an entirely fictional piece. Or write something a little like your own experience but made into fiction. One way of treating this subject is simply to
give some examples how things were between you when the relationship was good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or of course you could focus on the cause of the
rift, if there <i>was </i> an identifiable cause. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or you could simply describe the loved person,
not just their appearance, but work, interests,
funny incidents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt;">You could talk <i>about</i> the people, or enter the thoughts of one or the other. You could have the narrator speaking to the
lost loved one in his/her imagination,
or speaking to a trusted friend about him/her. As so often, it’s mention
of details that brings things to life.
What a good image of sorrow the photo above is. Is it possible to ‘say’ it in words?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the end of the Tennessee Williams’ play, <i>The
Glass Menagerie,</i> Tom who has
deserted his mentally ill sister, Laura, can’t shake off the memory of her.</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;"> When he
sees some glass figures in a shop he
remembers her collection of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt;">“I descended the steps of this fire escape for a
last time and followed, from then on, in my father’s footsteps, attempting to
find in motion what was lost in space. . . . I would have stopped, but I was
pursued by something. . . . I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume
is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent
bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once
my sister touches my shoulder. I turn around and look into her eyes. Oh, Laura,
Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended
to be!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><b><span style="background-color: blue; color: #ffc000; font-size: 36pt;"> Loss of Loved </span></b></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ffc000; font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="background-color: blue;">Activity or Work </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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How does it come about that you can’t do something any more? To do with growing up or growing old, being
injured, disqualified, married, being a
parent, having to keep up appearances in some way?<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">How to you describe doing this thing. Try and describe the activity <i>without </i>telling the reader that it’s no
longer possible for you any more. Make
the <i>way</i> you describe it express how
you miss it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">To do this you need to focus on the </span><span style="color: #1d1b11;">details you remember.</span><span style="color: #1d1b11;">
</span><span style="color: #1d1b11;">We usually remember details because of love for them (but also from
fear, unhappiness as well, alas.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You can write the piece as if it’s about someone else.</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"> Or about
something you <i>never </i>did and now it’s
too late.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-no-proof: yes; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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you make a list of activities missed.
Alternatively, you could reverse the task and write about loved
activitities hoped for!</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-5216697788800740432018-01-25T09:44:00.003-08:002018-01-25T09:46:34.397-08:002018 Theme Loss of Love 2Session 2<br />
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<b><span style="color: #1f497d; font-size: 36.0pt;">Loss of a Loved
Place and Time <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You may feel a loss of a place you loved as a child for
example, or it may be where you went with someone once loved, or no longer
alive. Often a place is loved because it holds memories. Or it could be a home which has literally
been ‘lost’ because now belonging to someone else.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Writing about loss almost always I involves memory, but it’s
a good idea not to harp on the <i> idea</i>
of memory too much. Better to describe
what he see in your minds eye still, or when you return to the place. If a place is loved it is well remembered
and so the details will be in your mind still, and if you can express them,
then the very sharpness of the detail will express your loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">For example, in the village in Shropshire where I grew up
there was a field (now a park) we visited in which there was a small stream
(now gone) and in the stream small fish we used to catch. We called then ‘red-throats’ and
‘silver-throats’, and they used to hovered under the water, sometimes under
weeds there, an then all suddenly dart in the same direction as if they made a
smear on the water. The stream was an
outlet from a lake and once my friend Donny looked down at his gumboots in the
water and saw a big pike gently floating between them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">One way of doing this task is simply to pile up memories
like that. When our dog got
stomach-ache, when he was accused to
chasing chickens, how he used to pant with eyes closed in the field, with his tongue like rasher of bacon, and how
his long back tooth pushed it up at the side, how his nosed looked to me then
like a blackberry, the sound of his claws ripping at the grass when he ran with
his ears back. How the fence of our
garden mad a hissing along its whole length when someone climbed over to
visit. How the butterflies twinkled
among the cabbages Dad planted. Mum’s
bike with a basket on the front and in which I used put a hedgehog I’d found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Sometimes you revisit these places and times, either in our
minds or dreams, and may feel like our own ghost floating through them. Or we may actually return, and then we notice difference. Or we may feel in some way we are always,
‘there’, with part of ourselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You could write the piece from the point of view of its
local spirit, from the point of view of
a dream, or just a story in the past or the present
tense. You might try <i>both</i> past and present and see what
effect each has. Memory is strange
because it is both past and present to us now, isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-48675564530956960132018-01-21T09:34:00.001-08:002018-01-25T09:46:52.632-08:00Winter Term 2018 Theme of Loss of Love 1<br />
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<b><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 36.0pt;">Theme: loss of love of Mum or Dad<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">This does not <i>have </i>to be autobiographical. It’s very common for author’s to make use of
personal experience to portray imagined character’s or imagined loss. But the theme of loss of love is very
common in all kinds of writing, and indeed songs and plays. My professor at university, the poet F T Prince, wrote at the end of one of his
poems about Richard the Lion Heart: “but
worse than all is loss of love”.
Here he was thinking of love of
his people and friends, I think. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">Of
course not everybody thinks love is the most important thing in life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">We all grow up (at
least to a certain extent) and lose the kind of ‘cuddly’ love we had as
children. You can write about
that. Sometimes we fall out with our
parents, or they with us. Eventually,
of course, they die and we lose their love in that sense, although you could
say that in another sense their love remains <i>in</i> us all our loves. Often
writers express loss of love by describing things or places which ‘bring back’
loved ones. It might be a seaside beach,
a certain walk, an ornament, a
song. Or they may simply describe a
memory. You may recall the old old pop
song</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">These Foolish Things Lyrics<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Maschwitz" title="Eric Maschwitz"><span style="background: white; color: #1d1b11; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">Eric Maschwitz</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #1d1b11; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div>
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Oh will you never let me be?</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Oh will you never set me free?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The ties that bound us are still around us</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">There’s no escape that I can see</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And still those little things remain</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">That bring me happiness or pain</span></div>
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces</span></div>
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">An airline ticket to romantic places</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And still my heart has wings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">These foolish things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Remind me of you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">A tinkling piano in the next apartment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">A fairground's painted swings</span></div>
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">These foolish things</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 9.5pt;">
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Remind me of you</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">You came, you saw, you conquered me</span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">When you did that to me, I somehow knew that this had to be</span></div>
<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The winds of march that make my heart a dancer</span></div>
<div style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9.5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">A telephone that rings - but who’s to answer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Oh, how the ghost of you clings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">These foolish things</span></div>
<div style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 9.5pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Remind me of you</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">This sounds like
romantic love lost, but to me captures
more general aspects of loss of love,
perhaps of my mother’s now she is dead. She used to sing this song on stage. In a strange way the song both reminds me of her loss and yet 'brings her back' at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">I stress that in
writing about loss of mother’s or father’s love you don’t necessarily have to
talk about yourself. Nor do you have to
mention loss of love in so many words. Sometimes
you hear someone simply talking about what Mum or Dad used to do and you can
feel the affection. And perhaps that’s
the most powerful way of conveying love – that is without mentioning ‘love’ at
all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">The lyrics of These
Foolish Things sometimes slips into sentimentality, perhaps, but most of the
time it seems very effective to me. We
can learn from this lyric how powerful your writing can be if you can <i>pick on the small specific detail, </i> like the lipstick o the cigarette, the tinkling piano, the fairground swings. I’m just thinking what I’d recall of this
class when it finally has to close.
Well: pigeons still flying from
France right into the classroom, a
comment about never having seen her husband’s willy, glares from a wheel-chair, hugs from a young visitor, flying into space in a dream and correcting
my spelling mistakes. . . . Well, I mustn’t
go on for fear of seeming to leave out the rest of you. I realize there are some <i>specifics</i> from all of you.
Later in the course we’ll look at that kind of ‘love’ if ‘love’ isn’t
too heavy a word to use. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 11.0pt;">But for this weeks
‘homework’ try to think of loss of parental love, either through quarrels or
betrayals, or simply through their having died and ‘stayed’ in your memory like
those lipstick traces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 48.0pt;">Redrafting
Prose Poem 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1d1b11;">I still can’t get this right because I still
can’t find what my feelings are for him, that school friend in schools I hated
and yet managed to put on a face and be, on the surface, ‘successful’ in, but
as soon as I could, aged sixteen I dropped out. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1d1b11;">I’ve
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 20.0pt;">i. m. RJH (revision 2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11;">At school dinner, you’re sliding your semolina to me You’d sat on Prince Regent. We shared a study. Your girlfriend was called
Ivy. You looked at me and told me I’d
got the measles. You captain and me vice-captain of the house cricket team. Practising together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11;">Prepschool, public school: eight years of termtime
everydays - chapel, lessons, prep, practice,
shower, your blond confidence there, then.
Till I dropped out, and you went on, became a rich CEO, and I never
wrote. You’re still twelve years old,
pushing that full toss to deep mid-off for your hundred and calling “Yes!” with
an almost singing joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: AgonicSSK, serif; font-size: 36pt;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">DRAFT OF COMPLETE PROSE POEM</span><span style="color: #1d1b11;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"> Continue working on your complete prose poem. We I’d like to take them all in next week
(or please email, them to me, those of you who are sick). Think of the following points which you
need to consider for ALL your writing in whatever form. It’s always a good idea to try out
different approaches. See how they
sound.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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any words I can cut out?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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better from a different point of view?
That is, for example, saying ‘I’ instead of ‘he/she’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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better in a different tense? Telling it
as if it’s all now, in the present tense, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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clichés! I hardly need to mention that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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better in a different tone of voice, for example more casual, slangy, conversational, speaking to a ‘you’? Or sarcastic?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to make the sounds of the words imitate the meanings? Change, ‘I walked across the lawn’ to ‘I squelched across the lawn’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at the end can happen in many ways.
Think about what you’ve got the reader to <i>assume</i> in the main part of the piece and then in the last line or
so show that really things were quite different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Below I’ve printed my first draft which I read out to you last week, and
then my first rewriting of it. It's about a former schoolmate who died last month. The
basic <i>problems </i>it deals with are<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Liked the guy and yet hated the world we lived in (those private boarding schools)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Haven’t seen him for sixty odd years and didn’t want to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">YET remember him so well, especially a moment of joy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A moment of joy, not sorrow, fills my mind at the thought of his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">What can that mean? I’ll leave it
to the reader to decide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Hadn’t seen
you for sixty odd years. And didn’t
want to, wanting to forget those awful schools,
even though we’d been friends of a kind at both of them, you sliding
your semolina over to me next to you at that long dining table, talking about
how you’d once sat on Prince Regent, wanting to share a study, being captain and me vice-captain of the house cricket team
together, practising together. But you
didn’t really matter. You were still
part of all that. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Except
hearing of your death, now, I keep
seeing you, about twelve, that time when
you scored a hundred for the school, that moment on 99, when you pushed a full toss towards midwicket
calling “Yes!” for that 1 more run, with almost singing joy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">i. m. RJH (revision 1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">We’re sitting
together at that long dining table, and you’re sliding your semolina to me You’re telling that once you’d sat on Prince
Regent. We shared a study. Your
girlfriend was called Ivy. You looked at
me and said, you know what you’ve got the measles. You captain and me vice-captain of the house cricket team. Practising together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Prepschool,
public school: eight years of everyday chapel and lessons and prep. Your blond confidence. My half admiration
half envy. There. Them. When I dropped out I never wrote. You were part of those places. You didn’t matter now. And yet. . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">H, hearing
you’re dead, a rich CEO, now, sixty years of silence later, I keep seeing you, at
prepschool, that time, that <i>moment,</i> when you scored the one run you needed for
your hundred. You’re pushing a full toss
towards midwicket and calling “Yes!” with an almost singing joy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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What you
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terrifying experience, a farewell at the
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You need to
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accents, maybe habits of repeating themselves, or using particular words, swearing, apologising</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Showing who is speaking by</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Starting a new line when there is a new speaker
or a change of speaker</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Putting in ‘he said’, ‘he whined’
sometimes</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Indicating any gestures the speaker makes as,
before, after speaking. ‘He did up his
shirt’, ‘She pushed her hair behind her
ear’. A gesture to add to or alter the
meaning of the words, or replace them.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: orange;">Exercise<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: orange;">Tell the same
short passage from several </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 36.0pt;"><span style="color: orange;">Point of View</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>Third Person Narrator (objective)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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She came
down the steps of the Police Station.
Herr hanky was shaking hand still and her coat undone. She walked unsteadily.</div>
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<br /></div>
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“Look where
you’re going!” shouted a woman grasping
her child out of the way .</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>Third Person Narrator (subjective)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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She still
couldn’t take in what the inspector had said. Jimmy was in prison. She’d forgotten she was still holding her
hanky. When she noticed it shaking in
her hand, she almost staggered into a
small child on the pavement. </div>
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<br /></div>
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“Look where
you’re going!” shouted the mother.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>First Person <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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How can Jimmy
be in prison? How <i>can </i> he be? <i>Prison!
Jimmy!</i> God, where am I? Where is this? What am I doing? Oh!
It’s a child. I’m sorry.
I didn’t mean to. . . You don’t
have to yell. In prison. And for. . .
No. he couldn’t have.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>Talked about<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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“So she goes
to the police station, yeah? And they
tell her, “Jimmy, your son, we’ve
arrested him.”</div>
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“What was it
for?”</div>
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“She
wouldn’t say. She seemed to be drunk!”</div>
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“Wouldn’t <i>say</i>?”</div>
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“No.”</div>
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“Something to do with that Sharon, I
expect. I knew she was trouble!”</div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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Third Person
Objective</div>
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The narrator
doesn’t get involved. He just
observes. All the characters get the
same treatment. Though it’s still
possible to show sympathy by the<i> way </i> things and people are observed. (She had eyes as dark as amber. She had eyes as dark as Satan’s sweetheart)</div>
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<br /></div>
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Third Person
Subjective</div>
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Here the
narrator allows him/herself to slip into the thoughts of characters, usually
just the main character if it’s a short story.
The narrator is ‘looking over the shoulder’ of a character, sees things
from his/her point of view.</div>
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<br /></div>
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First Person</div>
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Here the
character him/herself speaks, and so you get a fuller account of how he/she is
feeling. But of course, the point of
view might not be reliable. He/she may
twist the reality to suit his/her dignity or fears. Some novels had several first person
narrators, so we keep switching point of view.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Talked about</div>
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Here the
characters do all or some of the narration when they talk about the main
character. We then get their point of view,
and the character is seen through their attitude to him/her.</div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">points of
view. Which suits you best? Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 26.0pt;">Using concrete imagery to express ideas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">What is/might be suggested by
these examples<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Christina lifted her chin higher as she replied<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A large shiny of beetle crept out from between his lips<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 64.35pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Her diamond on her necklace was cut into the form of a
swastika<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 64.35pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">She looked quickly away.
He wore nothing but a stiff white collar and bow tie.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">“I am Theresa May!” she announced, slipped and lay for a
moment in the puddle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">“We don’t talk about boyfriends at table!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The Resolution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write the outline of a story or
poem up to the resolution. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">For example, a single
mother hears that her daughter is in danger of being snatched at a party. She rushes to the venue and just manages to
get there in time to see a man walking with her to his car. She grabs the girl away just in time. But then. . . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"> An old man is told that there’s a huge
escaped zoo-animal in the area. He
should lock all his doors and if the
beast should break in looking for food, climb up into the attic and wait until
it has gone. The beast does come, and does break in, but
when the old man comes downstairs the next
morning. . .<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Character analysing and
reacting to the problem<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Once the problem has been
introduced you have to make your character react to it. Some sort of decision has to be made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">How they
react and what they decide to do will be partly a matter of character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You also have to decide how to
show them deciding. Do you simply make
them act without any explanation, or do you make them sit down and think about
things? Talk to a friend? Who’s point of
view do you take: detached author, victim,
trouble maker, someone telling
the story to a friend?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Oh no, no</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">, </span><span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">not the ‘little talk…!</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Christina, I - well, I. . .</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</v:shape><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">In relation to the Love
Theme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">In the
possible story sketched last week where a mother is agonising how to tell her
daughter about the facts of life you could just <i>show </i>her making an embarrassed attempt. Here the <i>way</i> she talks might show her
awkwardness, self-confidence, wrong assumptions, and so on. If she talked about it with a friend you could get the back-story in easily,
through the friends questions). Or she
could be sitting in the park alone maybe rehearsing what to say. Or be looking
in a bookshop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 26.0pt;">Using concrete imagery to express ideas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">For each of
the points below, write one sentence giving one example which must be
‘concrete’ – that is something you can touch, or see, or hear. Or you could describe people’s physical
reactions. The examples below give just
the general <i>idea.</i> What you have to do is bring them to life by
focusing attention on the <i>things.</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">If you get
exactly the right detail, that saves you having to describe in detail, because
from that detail the reader can imagine everything else. But more important, it gives a much strong
impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Julia is standing outside the cinema waiting for James. She’s getting anxious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Debbie stands on the red carpet of the film premier looking
gorgeous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The party next door was very noisy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A van was backing laboriously up their back drive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The amount of alcohol had begun to affect her vision<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">When the teacher told her off little Anne was very
rebellious<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You could see that Linda had go off into one of her dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">STORY STRUCTURE</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">The Problem<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the ordinary flow of the character’s life.
And at the same time it has to engage us, the readers, and make us want
to read on to find out how things get sorted out, if they do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The problem
might be physical - someone breaks down
the door and points a knife at the someone else; or
someone realises that an enemy army is approaching their house. Or it might be psychological - someone might fear they are about to be put
into a public ‘home’ of some kind, or
may be in despair after failing in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Problem in relation to Love Theme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A mother has been putting off the chat about
the birds and the bees and protection with her daughter, now sixteen. She is acutely embarrassed about it. But the daughter has taken up with a man
rather too old for her, the mother considers, and so advice is now, in her mind, ’urgent’,
especially as her daughter is not nearly worldly enough, the mother fears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The problem
may, of course, be drawn out. She may
pluck up courage and start the conversation, and then by interrupted or her
daughter may herself be over embarrassed and run away – leaving her vulnerable,
the mother will realise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">How would
you introduce the problem? Have a
‘resolution’ in mind, an end which is ‘right’ but unexpected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Character analysing and
reacting to the problem<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Once the problem has been
introduced you have to make your character react to it. Some sort of decision has to be made. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">How they
react and what they decide to do will be partly a matter of character.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You also have to decide how to
show them deciding. Do you simply make
them act without any explanation, or do you make them sit down and think about
things? Talk to a friend? Who’s point of
view do you take: detached author, victim,
trouble maker, someone telling
the story to a friend?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Christina, I - well, I. . .</span><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</v:shape><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">In relation to the Love
Theme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">In the
possible story sketched last week where a mother is agonising how to tell her
daughter about the facts of life you could just <i>show </i>her making an embarrassed attempt. Here the <i>way</i> she talks might show her
awkwardness, self-confidence, wrong assumptions, and so on. If she talked about it with a friend you could get the back-story in easily,
through the friends questions). Or she
could be sitting in the park alone maybe rehearsing what to say. Or be looking
in a bookshop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 26.0pt;">Using concrete imagery to express ideas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">For each of
the points below, write one sentence giving one example which must be
‘concrete’ – that is something you can touch, or see, or hear. Or you could describe people’s physical
reactions. The examples below give just
the general <i>idea.</i> What you have to do is bring them to life by
focusing attention on the <i>things.</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">If you get
exactly the right detail, that saves you having to describe in detail, because
from that detail the reader can imagine everything else. But more important, it gives a much strong
impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Julia is standing outside the cinema waiting for James. She’s getting anxious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Debbie stands on the red carpet of the film premier looking
gorgeous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The party next door was very noisy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A van was backing laboriously up their back drive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The amount of alcohol had begun to affect her vision<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">When the teacher told her off little Anne was very
rebellious<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You could see that Linda had go off into one of her dreams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-55880147700841477442017-05-18T12:28:00.003-07:002017-05-18T12:28:52.764-07:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">The Problem<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the ordinary flow of the character’s life.
And at the same time it has to engage us, the readers, and make us want
to read on to find out how things get sorted out, if they do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The problem
might be physical - someone breaks down
the door and points a knife at the someone else; or
someone realises that an enemy army is approaching their house. Or it might be psychological - someone might fear they are about to be put
into a public ‘home’ of some kind, or
may be in despair after failing in some way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Problem in relation to Love Theme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">A mother has been putting off the chat about
the birds and the bees and protection with her daughter, now sixteen. She is acutely embarrassed about it. But the daughter has taken up with a man
rather too old for her, the mother considers, and so advice is now, in her mind, ’urgent’,
especially as her daughter is not nearly worldly enough, the mother fears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">The problem
may, of course, be drawn out. She may
pluck up courage and start the conversation, and then by interrupted or her
daughter may herself be over embarrassed and run away – leaving her vulnerable,
the mother will realise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">How would
you introduce the problem? Have a
‘resolution’ in mind, an end which is ‘right’ but unexpected. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Dramatic Openings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">Creative
a one or two sentence opening in which he establish and situation
dramatically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">For
example<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">1 Then the snarling dogged leapt at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">2 “I’m sorry, Albert, but I’m leaving you. Now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">3 The spreadeagled puppy had been nailed
by each of its paws to the back door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"> Some ‘backstory’ is required. See if you can supply some <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;">Love Theme<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write a ‘scene’ in which a man is complaining
that his wife no longer seems to love him in the way she did years ago. It’s not an <i>argument</i> between them, but her trying to get him to understand that
she, as it were, ‘misses’ him. He’s
always too busy for her, or not fully listening to what she is saying. They never do anything together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You have to decide what his response it. Try to avoid the cliché that well he’s just
an insensitive bloke. Perhaps he hasn’t
realised her feelings. Does he feel
guilty? Or does he feel that she is
overdoing it, perhaps because of some other disappointment? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Obviously much of this is going to be dialogue,
but you have to decide also whether you’re going to trace their thoughts, which point of view you’re going to
take. Are we sharing his thoughts,
hers, or looking at them from a detached
narrator’s viewpoint?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">To make a story/play/narrative of this it’s
probably a good idea to make their first conversation inconclusive and then let
them be ‘alone’ to think, maybe ask a friend, pray, take stock of the
marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">You might want to relate the discussion and the
relationship to some issues, such as equality.
Do they fall into gender stereotypes?
Is the way they live in some way unfair to one, or even both of
them? Are them making over idealistic
assumptions about Love?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 36.0pt;"> Openings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">You can open at the ‘natural’ beginning of the story,
or you can jump to a later point and find ways of letting the reader know what
has happened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">You can start with narration or with dialogue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">You can start with observation of the main character,
and/or with his/her thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt;">TWO EXERCISES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1</div>
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Imagine a
story or a poem or play about someone who thinks they are being spied on. She’s found something in the shed. She does in fact have a very guilty secret. She decides to hide near the shed that
night. </div>
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Where would
you start this? Think of at least TWO
possibilities and write half a page of opening.</div>
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2</div>
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A child
doesn’t come home from school as expected.
His father is away in America on
a business trip. His mother starts looking for him, thinking there may be a school club that he
hasn’t told her about. </div>
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Think of TWO
points at which you might start this story, and write half a page of
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Spring Term: week 8</span></b></span></h4>
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just happened<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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escaped <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the first time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘afterlife’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reincarnated as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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JOHN 'S BLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390963665060599814noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6890116126779233819.post-57628115611519332012017-02-11T09:55:00.001-08:002017-02-11T09:55:29.610-08:00HANDOUTS FOR OMEGA CREATIVE WRITING COURSE SPRING 2007 <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">
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This is an
important theme because it is ALSO a way of thinking about the overall form of
a piece of writing. A story or a poem
very often ends with a moment of surprise when the reader, or a character. In a popular story, or in a detective
novel, the reader is kept from knowing how things are going to end, who the
guilty person is, until the end. The cunning writing can even lead the reader
down the garden path a bit by giving him the idea that it’s Christina who’s the
vampire, when it fact’s cunning Mark.
In other kinds of writing you find that often the writer him/herself suddenly
realise them thing as they write: <i>that’s why</i> I’m fascinated with
goldfish! Or the writer may make a
character look into the complicated mesh of branches against the sky and lead
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If you
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‘resolution’ and it’s this that presents the ‘realization’, which needs to be a surprise of some sort
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Often, of
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are writing through, realizing something about him or herself. This
is what we mean when we say that writing is a kind of learning. And it’s the best kind of learning because
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-size: 26pt;"><span style="color: blue;">Write something in
which a child realises something.
Something about nature, Mummy, adults, caterpillars, him/herself<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-size: 22pt;"><span style="color: blue;">In The Wizard of Oz
Dorothy realizes that the wizard is in fact a fake. In The Ugly Duckly, the duckling
realises he’s a swan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-size: 48px;"><span style="color: blue;">Week Two One</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write something in
which <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">someone who’s
always seemed <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 26pt;">very cold and distant shows that</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">they have feelings,
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">hadn’t suspected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #632423; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-themecolor: accent2; mso-themeshade: 128;">People are sometimes brought up ‘not
to show their feelings’ or they may be insecure and fear to ‘let their guard
down’, and they may be trying to conceal
their feelings from you for some reason.
Inability to show feelings is often seen as a male characteristic
because ‘boys don’t cry’. But that
doesn’t always hold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0;">Scrooge – has a change of heart</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #6fa8dc; font-size: 36pt;">Week Three</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 36pt;">Realizing they’re </span><span style="font-size: 36pt;">not </span><span style="font-size: 36pt;">so stupid, or weak after
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write something about
a person who seems in some way ‘inferior’. But then something happens that shows different<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0f243e; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;">The elephant has no time at all for the stupid scuttling little mouse
until one day something gets caught in the elephant’s trunk and he needs
someone delicate and small to get it out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The old woman insists on sleeping in the garden
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<span style="color: #0f243e; mso-bidi-font-size: 22.0pt; mso-themecolor: text2; mso-themeshade: 128;">Wife grows tired of her boring stay-at-home husband, and when she’s out
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<span style="color: #0f243e;">Or David makes us realize that with God's help and some cunning the small can defeat the big</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">A Baby</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Write about a baby. A baby being born, or a baby just born -
yours or someone else’s. Or imagine the
experience from the point of view of the baby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Or write about caring for a new
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<span style="color: #1d1b11; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 26;">Think about: the sounds,
what the sounds are <i>like. </i>The wrinkles, the angles of arms and
legs, the inside of the mouth, movements against you, fearsome vulnerability,
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