Workshop 4

[Surveillance]

Week 5:

Workshop 4

Group 2: Peer Critiques.
Group 2: stories returned, with corrections and provisional grades.
Distribute Group 3 stories.

Fiction Exercise 3: The Watcher

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't out to get you (or so the saying goes).

Imagine, for the purpose of this exercise, that someone is watching you. It could be the police, a private detective, a stalker, an ex ... even some kind of supernatural entity.

• Describe the last half hour of your activities before class from your watcher's point of view.
• Don't simply tell us what kind of an observer they are, but try to give us enough clues to make it possible to guess.
• Should you be worried? Or is it a perfectly innocent type of surveillance?

(maximum: one page – minimum: one paragraph)

Next week:

• Group 4: Workshop Story Due. Bring enough copies for the entire class


• Group 3: Peer Critiques