Baby Shoes Assignment

http://community.lessonplanet.com/t/less-is-more-how-to-write-a-six-word-memoir-like-ernest-hemingway/972

Info on flash fiction:

http://flashfictiononline.com/main/

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/short-and-sweet-reading-and-writing-flash-fiction/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/flash-fiction/361614/

How to Use Dialogue Correctly

http://www.writerlylife.com/2010/09/how-to-use-dialogue-correctly/

http://homeworktips.about.com/od/writingrules/a/Writing-Story-Dialogue.htm

http://www.scribophile.com/academy/he-said-she-said-dialog-tags-and-using-them-effectively

Link to Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgqT_PjDvWU

NY Times Articles on Writng Characters

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/27/putting-personality-on-paper-writing-about-people-using-times-models/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A12%22%7D

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/01/arts/writers-on-writing-characters-weaknesses-build-fiction-s-strengths.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A12%22%7D

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/04/garden/bumping-into-the-characters.html?pagewanted=all

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/who-are-the-characters-that-authors-should-be-writing-about/

"Live For Today", Identity and Character

We will discuss identity and how we become who we are in "Live For Today." Setting also plays a major role in these stories. We will look at how that effects these characters as well.

Below is the graffiti that inspired the title of "Live For Today." I believe it has since been erased and is no longer visible but you used to be able to see on the PATH train between Newark and Journal Square.

This link below has a wide variety of articles on how we construct identity.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/identity

Newark and the surrounding area plays a big role in "Live For Today" and we will look at how that colors how people view the city and people from there. Here are some links about Newark:

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Newark-New-Jersey.html
http://libguides.rutgers.edu/content.php?pid=158675&sid=4109423

Character:

http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2014/01/13/25-things-a-great-character-needs/

http://thewritepractice.com/resources/characterization/

http://menwithpens.ca/fiction-writing-what-makes-readers-care-about-your-characters/