Author resume (exercise):
For a little writing prompt, create a short bio of you as an author: you may use a pseudonym. Unlike the assignment you completed in the beginning of the year, be wild and imaginative about what you have written. What are the names of the novels that your fiction self has written? What awards were given to you? Use Edward Gorey's story as inspiration for your own.
Other Edward Gorey stories:
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The Doubtful Guest
Mystery! Opening Credits & Mystery! Opening Credits #2
Sample author bio (from the Edward Gorey house):
A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such asThe New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBS Mystery series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey's masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.
You, of course, should make up the titles and accolades you have accomplished after a very long career as a writer. Be inventive!
You will need your bio for our next project next week!
IN THE LAB: Genre Story Project:
Please continue working from your outline to write this story.
HOMEWORK: None.
For a little writing prompt, create a short bio of you as an author: you may use a pseudonym. Unlike the assignment you completed in the beginning of the year, be wild and imaginative about what you have written. What are the names of the novels that your fiction self has written? What awards were given to you? Use Edward Gorey's story as inspiration for your own.
Other Edward Gorey stories:
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
The Doubtful Guest
Mystery! Opening Credits & Mystery! Opening Credits #2
Sample author bio (from the Edward Gorey house):
A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such asThe New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBS Mystery series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey's masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.
You, of course, should make up the titles and accolades you have accomplished after a very long career as a writer. Be inventive!
You will need your bio for our next project next week!
IN THE LAB: Genre Story Project:
Please continue working from your outline to write this story.
HOMEWORK: None.
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