Writing Exercises and Jeffrey Carver Homework

Reminder: Your homework for Wednesday is to check out one or more stories by local science fiction guru Jeffrey Carver. Click here to visit his downloads page.

Directions: Today's class is devoted to your final projects (this might facilitate some people working together who otherwise would have a hard time meeting up*). I'd like you to explore Jeffrey Carver's "Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy" site, trying a few exercises.

1. Go to the main site: http://www.writesf.com/
2. Start with the "World Building" section and complete two of the exercises on the "Approaches" page when you get there (read what he has to say, first!)
3. Continue reading and playing around with your own ideas ... as long as you're on task, I'm happy (just don't tell me you're "done" before the end of the period as there is WAY more than an hour of good content here!)

Have fun! Be ready with questions for Mr. Carver tomorrow in class. Also, yell at me if I forget to ask you all about having someone meet him in the main lobby, okay??

*You can also get creative about tools that allow for asynchronous collaboration, like wikis or Google docs, just so long as you're really collaborating, not just dividing the work in half.