1. DO you have a favourite story in the collection? WHY do you like this one particularly?
2. Can you pinpoint stories that address the following in themes: peer pressure, cost of living crisis, nature, climate change, w ar, peace, the uncanny.
3. Cn you identify stories with the following features: colour, seasons, weather, urban life, rural life, sport?
4. Find one story and identify a story structure: inciting incident, growing compilations, crisis point, climax resolution
5. In flash fiction the author has to build characters fast. Find a character you like in one of the stories: how has the writer built this character?
6. Tell your own story: take two characters from two different stories, put them together and see what happens.
7. How does the author create a sense of time and place in these stories?
8. Many writers write with the senses. Cn you find a story where this is obvious?
9. Open the bookk randomly read the story on the left page. What do you think was the picture that inspired this story?
10. can you suggest another way that a writer might put together a collection like this from a daily prompt Where might they find that prompt?
No comments:
Post a Comment