Happy Friday!
Today, we will finish up working with our extra practice writing prompts. You will randomly select a partner to work with. Switch prompts with your partner. Read through your partner's prompt and then try to guess which element they were working on. Then, using the comment function tell them what you felt they did well and give suggestions on how they can keep improving.
After that, we will spend some time working with dialogue (we'll come back to plot layers later). We will discuss how to punctuate dialogue and its different purposes. We will also talk about adding active and interesting dialogue tags.
THEN, we will do a partner dialogue activity in which you will be writing a short short story (like one scene) starting with only the dialogue! It's going to be a blast!
Partner dialogue character choices:
- movie star and fanatic fan
- officer and speeder
- psychiatrist and patient
- waiter/waitress and diner
- principal and student
- hairdresser/barber and client
- teacher and parent
- little sis and big sis
- driving instructor and student driver
- deejay and phone-in listener
- reporter and accident witness
- priest and confessor
- cheerleader and nerd
- two people on a blind date
- dogcatcher and dog owner
- player and coach
- two late-night grocery shoppers
- flight attendant and passenger
- angel and devil on character's shoulder
