CRWR 200- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 35 pages long!)
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What is ction: made up things that takes after real-life, beautiful lies in service of a greater truth. Examples: human life, emotions, characters: reveals truth that reality obscures. Stay within the parameters that you"ve set: story should be loose enough to allow imagination but there should be constraints for guidance. What readers care about: human side of the story, what characters learn and its e ects on them. On writing: a writer must always use the time of a stranger in such a way that he or she feels it has not been wasted. kurt vonnegut. %1: keep your readers in mind, the story should be compelling enough for them to want to pick it up. Classical narrative paradigm aristotle: making a protagonist. Location, as well as situation in life. Adversary of the protagonist: not necessarily the villain > can simply be a deterrent to the protagonist"s goal. Going opposite the protagonist along the pyramid.
