Creative Writing- Monday- 3rd period

[justrealistic]

"Last week I gave you an assignment to write a detective story," Daria began once class had begun. "Today you hand it in, but if you want, I'll give you the option to read it out loud. You don't have to if you don't want to. You will always get control over who gets to read or hear your work in this class- aside from me, because it's my job- but if you want to share it, you should be able to.

"Now for next week, your theme is 'traffic light.' Let's say five pages. That's all the guidance you're getting, except to say not to write if someone else is reading last week's work. Don't be that guy."

Comments

Sign In

[justrealistic]

At a light.

Re: Sign In

[revengenotebook]

Paris Geller

Re: Sign In

[intotheout]

Gratuity Tucci

Re: Sign In

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer Smith

Listen to the lecture

[justrealistic]

Or decide if you're going to show off or not.

Read/turn in your story

[justrealistic]

Read it aloud or just turn it in. What'd you write about and how'd you do?

Re: Read/turn in your story

[revengenotebook]

Paris turned in a story very much influenced by reading way too many Agatha Christie novels when she'd visited her grandparents. It featured a female detective who had no time for ridiculousness (not a stretch for her to write, surprisingly), and a plot that was a twist on Murder on the Orient Express, but on a cruise ship rather than a train.

Re: Read/turn in your story

[intotheout]

Tip's story was pretty contrived, and she knew it. Detective stories just weren't really in her wheelhouse. Especially since she'd decided to go political thriller about it, with the detective investigating the assassination of a presidential candidate. The whole thing turned out to be masterminded by a parrot.

It wasn't her best work.

Re: Read/turn in your story

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer would read her story out loud, sure! Because wouldn't that be so much fun for everyone?

So enjoy a story that sounded very much like it had been produced by one of those random story generators with mystery elements peppered with a whole lot of likes and totallys. A story filled to the brim with Chekov's guns, sultry heiresses smoking long cigarettes, characters named for condiments, a detective who was brooding, and a detective who was zany and seemed clueless, yet he was ultimately the one to reveal that...

...wait for it....

....the butler did it!

DUN DUN DUN.

It was complete and serious drivel, but, hey, Summer seemed, like, really enthusiastically into every twist and turn.

Write

[justrealistic]

Traffic light. Green light, go!

Talk to Daria

[justrealistic]

Just in case.

OOC

[justrealistic]

Now to sleep, and take a break from hurricane coverage.