MEMOIR TOPIC #4

ONE MOMENT
Write a third person fragment of a story about one important moment in someone’s life. Examine this moment from every possible angle. Think about smell, light, texture, distant and near sounds and the details that will stick in the memory of the participant. Don’t worry about telling a whole story (although you may learn that you can’t not tell a story here, when you explain the importance of the moment and tie up some of the threads attached to this moment).

The key to this exercise is to convey in ordinary details in every word about these details, the story at its microscopic level. Story is not just plot, talk, and event. Story is just as much the things you choose the reader to see, feel, smell, and hear. What do I mean by important moment? I want you to be imaginative. Choose an odd important moment, something that requires the reader to work a bit to understand the importance.
300 words. Due: 5/13