Hello Writers!
October is Franz Kafka month! Surrealism abounds!
Our assignments this month are:
1. Take a piece of your writing or a story you have considered or are planning to write. Or create a new idea for a story. Try to write an opening line with impact, which will lead the reader straight into the story, and inform them of what might be to come. (See the opening line of Kafka's The Metamorphosis or Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude)
2. Make a note of anything strange and unusual, weird and wonderful, that you see, hear, smell, read, taste or touch. In your notes, begin to look for connections. Put together disconnected images that juxtapose. Form similes and metaphors. Look out for new characters and character descriptions.
3. Take these facts and write them into a description of the character that is revealed through actions and strong narration and/or dialogue.
CHARACTER #1: A traveling salesman. He is 6 feet 4 inches tall. He has a bad back because he spends so many nights sleeping in cheap hotels with uncomfortable beds. He is divorced and has two young children, a boy and a girl.
CHARACTER #2: A doctor. She is married and has a one-year-old baby boy. Her husband is a stay-at-home dad. She has just finished a 20-hour shift and is beginning to hallucinate.
Have fun!