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The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Week Three

This weeks blog post is going to situate around our short story submissions and Dan’s reflection questions posted on the Story Lab Blog. In class we were given random short stories written by fellow classmates and told to provide constructive feedback via blog posts. What was it like knowing your work was being read/critiqued by…

Project Brief 1: “Story Time” – Reflection

The writing of my short story, “Numbers” was an experience in which I found planning to be extremely difficult. As a novel writer and reader, I found containing my story so that the reader would feel satisfied within it’s telling a trying affair. In it’s creation I focused on the “now” of the story –…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post Two

This week we touched on a range of subjects including Narrative and Database in Lev Manovich’s “The Database” (2001), as well as the concept of Agency as discussed in Janet Murray’s “Hamlet on the Holodeck” (1997). While I will openly admit that Manovich’s reading was a lot to digest, his ideas focused around one of…

The Story Lab 2016 – Blog Post One

Our First week back in classes consisted discussion surrounding that of Short Stories. As an avid reader and writer, I found the notion of the topic particularly interesting, despite the fact that I have never before paid particular attention the the style of writing. Having examined Ronald Dahl’s short story “Lamb to the Slaughter“, it…

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