Creative writing: narrative prose re-telling a fairy tale or 2 x sonnets.

Creative Work Minor brief and instructions
TASK
Creative writing: narrative prose re-telling a fairy tale or 2 x sonnets.
Weighting – 25%
Word length:
Creative writing:prose1000 words
Poetry: 28 lines
+/- 10% wiggle room. NB If you go over or under the word count/line length by more than the wiggle room, you will incur a penalty of 10% for every 100 words you are over or under.
250 word discussion of which elements of the fairy tale/sonnet form you have engaged with and how you have made the fairy tale/ sonnet form ‘your own’. +/- 10% wiggle room.
You MUST discernibly engage with unit material in your discussion. This means referencing lecture material or set readings. That can be done as simply as saying, ‘In the Week 3 Lecture, Professor Hsu-Ming Teo stated …’
SUBMISSION
Turnitin submission link.
Submit asonedocument in Word.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
This assessment is marked according to Unit Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3. See also the marking rubric for this task.
DETAILS
Submit one piece of creative writing that you have written, and which you may have workshopped in class.
This writing should have been
revised, reworked and developed well beyond a writing exercise and workshopped version
into a shaped, formed, structured and conceptually realised piece. The writing must be either the re-telling of a fairy tale
or
2 x sonnets.
NB: Your sonnets do
NOT
have to be fairytale themed. That is: Your sonnets may be about anything you like as long as you engage with the sonnet form.
Feel free to use writing from from your Weekly Writing Blog. That’s what those exercises were for!
Prose Formatting Guidelines:
Title of story in bold
12pt font
1.5 -double spacing
Times New Roman (or other reader-friendly font)
Indent first line of paragraph (NB HIT TAB to indent) except for the first line of a story or following section break (hard left)
The story will be about this: this was my writing from my weekly writing blog
Fairy Story: Seven Brothers and magnolia
Some set Reading:
we can use this set reading as a reference. Basically, I selected the story (
Seven Brothers and magnolia)
. You have to make the story in your own version like if you are a writer how you goona write a fairy story. You must add expression lines also. So read these books below and add some concepts from any of the books and write I got inspired from this book how the wolf tries to make fool the girl(example). One more reference
‘In the Week 4 Lecture, Professor Hsu-Ming Teo stated …’ we have to think are we making story for kids or adult. So, I make story for adult.
Topic Readings: Brothers Grimm, “Hansel and Gretel”
Emma Donoghue, “A Tale of the Cottage” in
Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins
LouiseGlück “Gretel in Darkness”
Lindsey Drager
The Archive of Alternate Endings
.
Extract
. https://lithub.com/the-archive-of-alternate-endings/
Topic Readings: Perrault and Grimm versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”
Tex Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood (see below)
Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves”
Carol Ann Duffy, “Little Red Cap”
Attachments:
10459105_1_1021-Creative-Work-MINOR-rubric.pdf
10459105_2_Creative-minor-question.docx