Writing Exercise #2: Writing From Your Life: Finding Your Narrator's Voice
Homework Writing Exercise Due: September 18  

In Finding Your Writer's Voice, the section on “Story” (pp. 73 - 155) has many helpful insights, examples and exercises geared towards our next video assignment #2, The Episode: Writing From Your Life.

In order to start to experiment with the narrator’s voice for video assignment #2, your writing exercise for this week is based on this section, especially the pages on anecdotes to stories, first person narrator, and third person narrator/persona.   The exercises are meant to give you an introduction to crafting point of view and using a narrator in your upcoming video assignment.   I recommend that you use a story from your life to do these exercises. This exercise can be 2 -3 pages in length depending on the complexity of the story. To help you analyze third person narrative distance, you can ask yourself the questions on page 115 in Finding Your Writer’s Voice.  

Choose ONE of the exercises below from Finding Your Writer’s Voice to complete and hand in: 
Exercise #1: Meeting the First Person Narrator—Narrative Distance;The detail for this exercise is on page 106, and is wither #2 or #4.  
Exercise #2: Experiments in Points of View; The details for this exercise is on page 101; you can choose any of the exercises 1 through 5.  

(If you want to use an exercise from this section on Story that you find more compelling which is linked to p.o.v. and narration, you can choose that one instead. However, please indicate which exercise you are using including the page number from the book.)