Let’s Win A Grammy! Spoken Word and The Recording Academy, With Faylita Hicks & Torch Literary Arts
That time I attended a spoken word Grammy workshop.
That time I attended a spoken word Grammy workshop.
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the Narrative Device exercise and give it some movement with action and suspense.
if Dina had simply condemned herself to an eternal “dark” place away from the light of her prince and others, without changing her skin color, would we have cornered the racism in that idea?
Let’s look at how audience was put into our micro story about a paper cup based on what is explained versus what is understood.
The idea behind this exercise is that an ideas doesn’t make a good story, craft makes a good story, and a writer should be able to move a reader with a story about anything—even a paper cup!
This is our raw story about a paper cup. We will follow the Paper Cup and look at its development given narrative device, dramatic line, and audience.
We’ll take our raw story about a paper cup from the previous What Is Story? exercise and give it some narrative awareness.
I had the opportunity to speak with Rep. Raúl Grijalva…[who] suggested that the matter [of hurricane relief for U.S. Virgin Islands] rests with Black local and national leadership raising the profile of the USVI issue.