Take a few minutes to check in with your group and finalize whatever you need to finalize before we share these. When you're done, email them to me at joshuag@cos.edu.
Who did this right?It's a stupid question, isn't it?
We had to make decisions about…
What genre are we working in?
Whose point of view are we writing from?
Who makes the first move?
How old are they?
Where is our focus? On the details? On the feelings?
Do we like these people?
How does it end?
How do they want us to feel?
What caused things to end?
Long distance
Cheating
9/11 (twice?)
fred is dead
/r/aita
our band broke up but we stuck it out
"i really don't think the guy i'm sleeping with has anything to do with our marital problems"
my evil dad bribed a college basketball with $3 million dollars to ship my boyfriend off to another state
What genre are we working in?Some other approaches I've seen from students.
Epistolary Writing
Two-Voice Poems
Dating Sim
Storyboard for a Reality Show
Dialog (via text)
Ukulele tablature
A musical...?
Do we like these people?The Last Five Years
Some takeaways
There is no right or wrong. There are only choices.
The choices we make as writers have certain effects on our readers.
That doesn't mean that there's no such thing as "good" or "bad."
What counts as "good" or "bad" really depends on whether our choices achieve the effects we intend.