In the spirit of Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong-Kingston, Amy Tan, James Joyce, and Arundhati Roy, write a FICTITIOUS short story about the span of a family’s generational struggle to find peace within itself (or at least a fragment of a short story). Make sure that you produce two pages.
Consider style. Like the novelist that you have covered throughout this year’s studies, you may employ dialogue, dramatic monologue, internal monologue, first or third narration, and other literary technique(s), such as stream of consciousness. Be creative and be mindful of your application of tone and mood.
Who is your fictitious central character? What is this character’s arc? What is your master plot, journey, point, or didactic lesson? You might think ahead to wonder how, if you were a famous Hollywood director, this story might be filmed… Setting can be important.
Follow Roy’s lead. Try not to write in a linear tradition. Use flashback, In Medias Res, digression, and flash forward to tell your CIRCULAR, fragmented tale.
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