Post #11- Checklist for life...

This is your final blog.  Sile N'Bhron dies at the hands of Cleake, and The Detective dies another death.  He isn't killed by Cleake, unless he wants to be.  In your last post make sure that you leave your reader with something to think about--other than, "I have no idea what that story was about.." In a post-modern world, answers are least easy to come by and life is complicated and stranger by the minute.  Take time to think about all the stories that you've read in class and try to write by metaphorically looking over your shoulder at the great masters of literature.  Ask yourself the following questions:
1) Does my character develop along, as Flannery O'Conner says, "spiritual lines"?
2) Is there a startling event that is oddly completely fitting for your story line?
3) What conflict, internal or external, does your character grapple with and is that conflict resolved?
4) Do you have a happy ending or a fitting ending?
5) Have you shown us the character by actions, thoughts and relationships rather than tell us about the character?
6) How well have you incorporated the "master blog" items, events and characters into your blog?
7) Literature is about the well-imagined story; make yours one, too.

Post #10

Write your blog so that you have incorporated a prime number into the post in some way.  Remember, this is your next-to-last post. The final one must incorporate one of the two deaths in the blog.  Sile must die at hands the of Cleake in blog #11, and some how the The Dectective must also die. Did I mention that #11 is your final blog?  In the coming days, you should work on revisions of your previous posts. Good luck, have fun and be creative--at all cost.

Blog #10 - And one more thing...

This is the next-to-last post for your blog.  The final blog, #11, is due at the end of the day on Monday, May 14th.  If you do not have all 11 blogs, you will not pass this final! Although I will hand-out a rubric, here are a few things to keep in mind as you bring your character to a conclusion:
1) You should incorporate as many of the "master blog" elements as you can.  You have at least one element/character in each blog.
2) In each blog, we, the readers, should be shown new developments in your character.  Those developments should be shown, not told.  The difference between just passing and an A, is the ability to develop your character from one blog to the next--however slight that change maybe-- the reader should know more each blog.
3) Although authors do take poetic license with grammar, they do still edit and proofread.
4) You are more than welcome to rewrite, revise, develop any other aspect of your character before the deadline.  Good writers revise.

Blog #9 - Sunset Grill

Your character should choose among the following:
Dream about a vacation
Plan a vacation
Want to go on vacation
Recall a vacation
This vacation idea should develop character, particularly some type of internal or external conflict. 

You should also include one of the following characters:
Petra Jagodinska
Spring Patterson
Lucy Collins
Robin Spartacus Moore
Kindra Lee

Blog #8 - Motifs

You should incorporate one of the following motifs. 

Flying/inability to fly and/or ghosts. 

Also include one or more of the following characters. 
Clara Kate Holloway
Pink
Christophe Moreau

The air is perfectly still--creepy still -- and it is partly cloudy. Also, it is early morning around 6:30 AM.

Blog #7 - The past is always present

In this blog post, you should use Morrison's technique to further develop your character.  You should recall, in some way, a past event that has had a profound or very strong effect on your character's present life.  A childhood incident, a loss of some sort, a moment that your character made a decision about something that influenced your character's subsequent actions. You could use last week's mugging to trigger the memory.  Like Morrison, your character could describe some other character from his/her past. That description of  another character tells more about your character as well.  Also, you can to use a piece, line, phrase, paragraph from another story you've read in class, or a passage from this novel to start your blog.  Sometimes great writers are inspired by something another author has written. For example, the description under Castle Apartments is from a T.S. Eliot poem.

Blog #6 - The crime

There has been a crime.  Someone has been mugged and there are witnesses.  You are going to write the event from one of the following positions.  Write your character into the scene.  Your scene should start no sooner than about 5 minutes before the crime and finish right after as the alleged perpetrator is fleeing the scene.  Time of day is twilight.  Time of year is early March. 

#1 Alleged perpetrator

#5 Victim

#4 Eye-witness from an upper window, balcony, rooftop, etc.

#3 Eye-witness who is walking down the street

#2 The person who is passed-out behind something in the immediate area: tree, dumpster, car, etc.

#6 the person who gets run into by the alleged perpetrator as she/he is making their escape.

1.     Sherwood park

2.     Next to Strip club, on the side nearest Castle Apt.

3.     Near locked shed behind the theater

4.     Between the roller rink and Walter’s Lanes.

5.     Near basketball court 

6.   Behind the police station and the shoe store.

Perspective:

1	???????? - Ethel Williams
2	Evie Jakyl - Rosalee Mescudi
3	Ryan Deneco - Yonnie Futuro
4	Trixie Jean - Roxy Buckwald
5	Riley Sminote - Lucy Collins
6	Lucas Shaffer - Augie Emerson

Location:

1: (12 people, 2 per perspective)	????????, Abigail Watson, Evie Jakyl, F. John Jeffery, Ryan Deneco, Sketchy Dave, Trixie Jean, The Detective, Riley Sminote, Renshu Zheng, Lucas Shaffer, Kindra Lee
2: (12 people, 2 per perspective)	Alice Bennet, Brooke Adams, Glenda McCormick, Heather Agoyoanye, Spartacus Moore, Talus Fugue, Tacito Turn, Syrius Hawkins, Pink, Petra Jagodzinska, Justin West, Justin Kingsley
3: (12 people, 2 per perspective)	Clara Kate Holloway, Cleak, Julius Smith, Kendra Lee, Tanuya Phat, Travis Kasperbauer, Spring Patterson, Spencer “The Switch” Daey, Otto Vandersloot, Otis Baumer, Jonah Tajmahan, Emma Gerber
4: (12 people, 2 per perspective)	Devon Tresp, Eliana Rosenthal, Leon Van Damme, Lona Kapur, Vinny Johnson, Violet, Sile N’Bhroin, Shaniqua Washington King, Ol’ Johnny, Mr. Orange, Dmitri Sidorov, Christophe Moreau
5: (10 people, 2 for perspectives 1-4 and 1 for perspectives 5-6)	Elijah Obidiah, Ethel Roberts, Lux Dalthan, Robert Whittlesey, Wren Fentz, Xavier Holland, Scott Rowe, Scooby Doolittle, Mahogany Rose, Charlie Ladle
6: (6 people, 1 per perspective)	Ethel Williams, Rosalee Mescudi, Yonnie Futuro, Roxy Buckwald, Lucy Collins, Augie Emerson