3. Building Blocks

Creative Writing

3.buildingblocks

Cardona Delgado Adriana Nallely.Cortéz Arredondo Heather Maribel. García Gómez Mónica Lizbeth. León Palomo Scarlett Valeria. Ramírez Baldomero Karen Jackelyne. Rivera de la Torre Julio Alfredo.

table of contents

1. Parts of narrative

1.1 Sentences

1.2 Conflicts

1.3 Scenes

1.4 Building narratives using conflicts-crisis resolution

1.5. Putting It All Together: Writings Scenes for Narratives

2. Parts of Poems

2.1 A Word on Words

2.2 Lines

2.3 Turns

2.4 Stanzas

2.5 Playing with Form

parts of the narrative

1.1 sentences

they are the basic building block of narrative.sentences are the vehicles for the images.

They are cause-and-effect situations

1.2 conflicts

Narrative is a container for conflict.

time

1.3 scenes

a clock ticking

Is essentially a moment in time when people are in conflict with other.

three essential ingredients

a place

an intriguing, interesting setting

and action!

two or more characters involved with troubles

1.4 Building narratives using: conflict-crisis-resolution

Writing successful scenes into the narrative

conflict-crisis-resolution

1. Start with conflict right away. Readers are not interested in the buildup. Plunge into problems. 2. Build to crisis. Start with the conflict and show conflicts that increase the intensity. The most significant conflict in the narrative s called crisis. 3. End with resolution. Janet Burroway suggests the next options to solve the narrative crises:

• The two fighting forces call a truce
• The two fighters call a truce and agree to fight again later
• Declaring victory, the hero lives happily ever after, and the loser suffers
• Losing, the main character offers insight into life with loss
• The two fighters both realize no one will ever win
• Each side thinks it has won

Some important aspects

• You don't have to resolve the conglict itself, you just have to solve the story line

• It's good for your ending to provoke discussion, but not confussion
• Look back to your opening, make sure everything is connected and the links are clear and logical according to the crisis of the story
• Focus on the point of change, the psychology of your characters, the impact of the battle, the conflict, their lives. etc.

EXAMPLE

1.5 Pulling it all together: Writing Scenes for narratives

To write a scene, it helps to prepare

1. Draw the problem
2. Consider polarity
3. Tighten up the time
4. Pick a place

Here is a recipe yu can use throughout this class.

2 Parts of poems

Many poems use narrative structure and tell a story.

tow basic typs of poetry

1. Lyric Poetry: Which is image-based, expressing the feelings and observation of the speaker. 2. Narrative Poetry: Which use images but places them in a clear story, or narrative format.

A Word on Words

2.1

In a poem, every single word matters

• Words are chosen with deliberate care by the poet to create a certain effect on the reader.
• A poet may take into consideration: the sound of the word, its history and connotations, the feeling of the word in the reader’s mouth, how a word interacts with other words in the poem in terms of echoes
• In poetry, words are as important as sentences in a prose
• In a well-constructed poem, we obtain a strong image for the eye and a pleasing soundscape for the ear

each word stands out and carries some weight on the page

a word must earn its keep

peotry is excellent to practice economy, specifity, and attention to language

In a poem, words provide the foundation of your piece, thus each word is purposefully selected or rejected based on how they will fit the overall pattern and how sturdy and perfeclty formed they are.

lines

2.2

if words are cells, lines are the bones in a poem

• A poetic line can be a full sentence, but they're usually cut into pieces
• The end of a sentence is not necessarily the end of the line
• A line is not the same thing as a sentence
• Lines make up the basic rythm in the piece

Line break: a word the line ends on; when a lince ceases and starts a new one End-stopped: a line that ends in punctuation. Enjambed: a line that has only a part of a sentence; it creates suspense at the beggining of the next line

a line is a single line of poetry; all the words on one line of text

lines have to be well-consturcted and power-packed

a line has as much to accomplish as a paragraph in an essay or a scene in a narrative

• A line always has to move in a certain direction, from point A to point B. Each line is a micro-movement.
• Just as words, each line has to earn its keep in the poem.
• A line can be as short as a word.
• Short lines can be very effective and hard-hitting
• With longer lines, the poet has to be more attentive to the principles of poem structure

Poets want their lines to work harder than sentences.

a poem is a terrific, tight, beautifully crafted piece of art

A good poet attends to each line as if it were a miniature poem

prose poetry is formatted like a narrative but demonstrates other traits such as symbols, metaphors, and other figures of speech common to poetry

2.3 Turns

Poetry

No straight lines

Serie of turns

Verse

I Love Joey [Poem]

random lines one turn weak but works

I love Joey, my baby baloney head. And I hate like freak him too. He has a perfect wife. "Veronica." Ver- onica, hair-onica, snake women. I hate her more. Joey love me. You are a bald but you deserve more!

I love Joey Joy is adorable and hot Joy and I were meant to be His wife will see this someday soon.

I love Joey Joey is fantastic, adorable, and hot Joey and I will always be together Joey is great and were meant to be

straight line no turns no poetry

dramatic turns in every line different direction

first poem for you - kim addonizio

I like to touch your tattoos in complete darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of where they are, know by heart the neat lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent twists, facing a dragon. When I pull you to me, taking you until we’re spent and quiet on the sheets, I love to kiss the pictures in your skin. They’ll last until you’re seared to ashes; whatever persists or turns to pain between us, they will still be there. Such permanence is terrifying. So I touch them in the dark; but touch them, trying.

• A poem has at least one turn, and most often this turn is toward the end of the poem.
• Often there will be small turns leading up to the big turn toward the end.
• In poetry, words, lines imagery, and tone indicate turns.
• A turn is simply a chanfe in directions.
• It's an essential building block

2.3Stanzas

what is a stanza in poetry?

Stanzas come in all shapes and sizes

Series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem

Stanzas can be revealing

purpose

To group ideas or images that belong together

StructureOrganization Set a mood

2.4Playing with form

it's always difficult to read about the structure, and much easier to simply begin writing