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Short Story Fragment
As our course is coming to a conclusion it's a good time to explicitly use your imagination to consider the future. This assignment asks you to undertake a creative writing experiment, to write a short story or a fragment of a short story set in the future somehow tied to the themes we have been examining. You have complete freedom to decide when, how far, into the future you want to set the story, could be near or far. You have complete freedom to imagine utopian or dystopian outcomes - what that world will be like is up to you. You have a great deal of freedom to decide how long you want the story to be. I'd like to see about 2000 words, but if you are able to write effective flash fiction, it could be less than that. You may love creative writing and this assignment is just what you have been waiting for in a literature class. Or creative writing may be new to you, either exciting or taking you out of your comfort zone. In any case, I am not looking for a final, finished piece. I am looking for an experiment, playing around with characters, dialogue, description, and action. It can be only a "fragment" - something started but not finished. We will have a time in class to share many of the creative pieces you come up with. The Internet is full of advice about how to write a short story. Here are a few resources to look at:
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