Lit Assignment

Hi All.

Thanks so much for all the ideas for my assessment. Some of them I'm thinking might work well as fic :D

This is my assessment for my Creative Writing course. It's the final assignment and worth 50% of my marks. (Next module I'd studying Children's Literature.) 

I'm marked on:

Language - Both clarity and precision of language and to it's creative use: adjectives, metaphors, stylistic flourishes and rhetorical devices. (Rhetorical devices is a catchall for all sorts of things like allusions, analogies, hyperbole, and understatement)

Voice - The creation and sustaining of author's style which might include tone, point of view, dialogue, and observation.

Structure (which I always have trouble with) - Effective organisation of the writing. Balance of showing and telling and appropriate development of the story arc or plot.

Ideas - The content of theme.

Presentation - (another weakness!) Correct spelling and grammar as well as sound editing.

If anyone could offer any thoughts, suggestions, point out typo's or anything else on the following I'd be very grateful!

(I don't have a name yet. I hate names. )

 

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Gee... thanks?

My grades on my Creative Writing course have been dropping since January so I emailed my tutor asking for advice. I wasn't expecting much but I stupidly thought oh... I don't know, she might point out some weakness I had or some hint of what they were looking for. So what words of wisdom did my helpful tutor have?

'attempt something that you absolutely love'

That's it? That's my help? Thanks for that. Worked so damn well with my poetry, that I loved and was, in fact, my worst result.

I would email back and ask specifically if she could highlight any weaknesses, but I'm not really sure there's any point.

Wait, I'm SURE there's no point.