Lab Materials from Class 2/2

Group, I'm just sharing with you here the slideshow on writing about an object, as well as the draft of my "raft" story. Hope they help! A few comments about both:

• the slideshow is really pushing you to think about what to do once you're in the process of generating all those details about your object and it's story. In other words, how might you use that "prewriting" to make an actual draft for a reader? There are several approaches there, along with my own examples. My object in that case is a book about how to write in shorthand.
• the "raft" example features two attempts to write a draft. The first one I would consider my initial draft, and even though it's organized, I think it's not as interesting as the beginning of the second one. The tip here is to consider the TIMELINE of your narrative, and to realize that telling everything in chronological order, from the beginning, might not be that interesting to a reader. The second version starts in media res, which means it starts in the middle of the action. I think it's a lot more engaging because of that, and maybe you do, too.