Notes/comments

7) Ideas to consider:
a.) Setting is as important as character. Do not forget/neglect the world around your character. Setting helps authenticate experience. Currently, you all are doing a great job letting the setting blend with character-- many of your characters are as bitter and biting as the weather.
b.) Conflict must be present. Internal conflict is more difficult to authenticate than external. You don't need to know the characters name to mention or interact with characters. For example, this week's entry from Donald Consider why and how you would know his or her name.
c.) Don’t forget about literary devices. Many of you are doing a nice job with imagery, some with metaphor. For example, this week's entry from Sidda.
d.) Each time you write, reread your previous entry. Build on the unknown and the unknowable. There needs to be mystery so that the reader can be engaged and looking for his/her interpretation. Do you know the motivations of your character? Most of you are definitely doing a great job dropping us into the middle of things (in medias res) and giving us enough to know and work with, but each entry should be about something.
e.) Keep thinking about physical, spiritual, intellectual and emotional lines of movement in your character. In a way, you are writing a short story, so most movement will be incremental.
f.) proofread and spell check.
g.) Have fun.