I have created this blog to act as my account of the course and a way for my to observe and comment on my own writings and track my progress as I work my way through the course.
Our first assignment was to write two different paragraphs.
The first was to write a passage with one fact and three fictions.
The second was to write a passage with one fiction and three facts.
These are the passages that I wrote:
1 fact, 3 fiction:
The endless years of sewage dumping mixed with a particularly hot summer had crippled London with an ungodly stench. But sewage wasn't the only thing to be found drifting in the river. Its murky waters provided the perfect hiding place for The Cult of Killers hiding in London's shadows. They met every Thursday alongside the river and inhaled the whispers of the ghosts they had created. The stranger thing is that no one noticed the swarms of bodies trawling across the bottom of the river.
The endless years of sewage dumping mixed with a particularly hot summer had crippled London with an ungodly stench. But sewage wasn't the only thing to be found drifting in the river. Its murky waters provided the perfect hiding place for The Cult of Killers hiding in London's shadows. They met every Thursday alongside the river and inhaled the whispers of the ghosts they had created. The stranger thing is that no one noticed the swarms of bodies trawling across the bottom of the river.
1 fiction, 3 facts:
Kit scuttled around the cramped streets of Victorian London, taking what he could and lumping it into his back sack before escaping to the comfort and safety of the tunnels below.
The tunnels were the beginnings of a train system. Mechanical beasts that supposedly made traversing London easier.
The tunnels gave him some respite from the pea-souper that gripped the City with its green tinged fingers, an unsightly remnant of the factories that had set up shop along the Thames. He could see them now, their towers and funnels rising through the haze like the skeletons of giants.
A woman's shriek shattered the silence.
The Ripper has awoken.
Kit scuttled around the cramped streets of Victorian London, taking what he could and lumping it into his back sack before escaping to the comfort and safety of the tunnels below.
The tunnels were the beginnings of a train system. Mechanical beasts that supposedly made traversing London easier.
The tunnels gave him some respite from the pea-souper that gripped the City with its green tinged fingers, an unsightly remnant of the factories that had set up shop along the Thames. He could see them now, their towers and funnels rising through the haze like the skeletons of giants.
A woman's shriek shattered the silence.
The Ripper has awoken.
Admittedly, I found this simple creative prompt extremely hard but the factual paragraph was a lot easier, which surprised me(which I assume is possibly the point of the exercise).
It clearly displays that a more convincing fiction is based on fact.
0 comments:
Post a Comment