Writing Workshop - 5/23 - Journalism Classroom - Tuesday Morning

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe greeted each of the students as they followed the handwavied instructions and came into the Journalism classroom. Anyone who had been in here during the last semester might notice that all traces of Rita had been removed; the room had definitely become Chloe's domain.

"Good morning," she said brightly, distributing a syllabus to everyone. "Welcome to the writing workshop. For anyone I haven't met extensively yet, I'm Chloe Sullivan. Please, please call me Chloe, because any of that 'Ms. Sullivan' stuff is just going to remind me that I'm old and I have to leave this place at the end of the summer."


She gave everyone a smile and turned around to address them fully. "So, the basic idea of this workshop is to give you all a chance to experiment with different writing styles that are out there. We're going to start with non-fictional styles, and then move into some of the more entertaining fictional forms. I will warn you, I'm probably going to be doing some heavy pimping of the school newspaper, because it's kind of my baby, and it needs good people to take care of it next year. Those of you who were my minions part of the staff should know what I can get like." Chloe smirked.

"I figured the best way to start would be to talk about writing biographies," Chloe said, outlining a few of the characteristics of this style on the board. "This is also my sneaky way of making you all talk to each other on the first day. I've assigned each of you into a pair, and what I want you to do is get together with your partner, talk a little bit about yourselves, and then give me a minimum of 50 words on what you learned."

Pairs:

Janet Fraiser/Alanna Trebond
Rory Gilmore/Charlie Kawalsky
Marie D'Ancanto/Cameron Mitchell/Elizabeth Weir

Comments

Sign In

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Re: Sign In

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky signed in.

Re: Sign In

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie signed in.

Re: Sign In

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth signed in.

Talk With Your Partners

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Re: Talk With Your Partners

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

Marie is sitting at a desk, doodling on her notebook.

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

After not managing to get out of the course, Cameron grabbed a chair and sat down beside Marie. "Yo, I see you've survived Fandom so far."

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[untouchableskin.livejournal.com]

"Yes, I have. And I found out that all the stuff you told me the first day was true, so I probably owe you an apology for thinking you were crazy," Marie said with a smile. "How've you been?"

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

Kawalsky shifted his chair over to Rory who I am modding omg, because she's Rory and she always shows up.

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Hi!" Rory said brightly even though she had been modded like a modded thing omg and also Major K is an Aussie who is sleepinating as I type this.

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Charlie replied. "Ready to be poked and prodded? I mean that in a not-dirty kind of way."

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[janet_fraiser]

Janet took a seat, pulled out her notebook, and looked around for Alanna.

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna yawned and sat by Janet. "Morning."

Re: Talk With Your Partners

[janet_fraiser]

Janet covered her mouth as she yawned. Stupid reflex. "Why did we take a morning workshop?" she asked.

Turn In Your Assignment

[mycanonhatesme]

Feel free to handwave. *g*

Re: Turn In Your Assignment

[janet_fraiser]

Janet tried to turn what she and Alanna had talked about into a 50 word essay. It might have looked a little sparse, at points, though, with a few too many unnecessary adjectives to fill out the word requirement.

Re: Turn In Your Assignment

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Janet Fraiser traveled a lot as a child because of her father's involvement with the military. Tragically, both of her parents died in a car accident recently. She transferred here from Colorado Springs and is interested in biology. Janet hopes to become a doctor someday. She spent time in Germany.

Talk to Chloe

[mycanonhatesme]

Especially if you're someone she's not expecting to see here. *cough*Cameron*cough*

Re: Talk to Chloe

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

After receiving Veronica's email, Cameron had double checked his workshops and sure enough something must have gone wrong. Signing up for journalism? So not his thing. He did however show up early for class in the hopes of talking himself out of it, because that had worked so well for him yesterday.

"Yo, Curvy!" Because that really was the way to suck up to someone.

Re: Talk to Chloe

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe snickered at the nickname. Oh, it was a good thing Cam was cute and bigger than her. "Hey there. If you're trying to impress me on the first day by being early, it's almost working," she said.

Re: Talk to Chloe

[kawalsky.livejournal.com]

"Sooo...here's the thing," Kawalsky said. "I meant to sign up for Wilderness Survival, but signed my name on the wrong sheet. But I figure hey, had to happen for a reason, so I'm gonna stick around. That okay by you?"

Re: Talk to Chloe

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe grinned, and nodded. "That's totally okay. I'm glad you've decided to stay."

Re: Talk to Chloe

[janet_fraiser]

"Poetry?" Janet looked at the syllabus with growing dread, then at Chloe, possibly with a panicked expression. "We have to write poetry? I'm not poetic."

Re: Talk to Chloe

[mycanonhatesme]

"I'm not talking epic Homeric stuff here." Chloe tried to sound reassuring. "Poetry can be really simple. This school is harboring a toaster that can rhyme - I'm pretty sure you can be more capable than that."

OOC

[mycanonhatesme]

Did I forget anything?