Creative Writing in English - extra session: writing exercise

Let's have some fun and have a session dedicated to a writing assignment (optional, as always). There are 2 assignments you can choose from, or both:

OPTION 1:

### Genre Swap

Purpose: Practice voice, language, and tone in different genres.
Exercise: Take the mundane scene of ironing and write it in two different genres — for example, noir detective and high fantasy, or horror and romantic comedy. Max 200 words per scene.

OPTION 2:

### The Wrong Voice

Goal: Practice how voice transforms the reader’s experience of content.
Exercise: Write a dramatic or tragic scene in a comedic or overly formal tone — or vice versa. For example, a breakup letter in the style of a product recall notice, or a ghost story told like a Yelp review. Max 250 words.

Upload your submission for constructive feedback from the group as a Google Doc (convert Word docs) in this folder. It's a different folder than the one for regular submissions, as we'll be focused on the specific writing exercises this time.

For reviewers:

• You can leave written comments in the margins of the document for the author (avoid making changes in the actual document). If you don't want to be biased by other reviewers' comments, choose the viewing mode.

We will discuss the assignment submissions in our online session in order of upload date/time (first come, first served), provided the max wordcount is adhered to. It could be that not all submissions can be discussed, but you can still use the written comments from the group.

NEXT MEETING
The next meeting, where we will review "regular" submissions again (no assignment), will be on July 17 - as planned.

Let's help each other become better writers!

Fiona