{"id":945,"date":"2017-02-01T16:42:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/?p=945"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T16:42:51","slug":"mad-libs-story-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/2017\/02\/01\/mad-libs-story-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mad Libs&#8221; Story Scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rules: After we collaborate as a class to fill in a series of &#8220;Mad Libs Story Scenes,&#8221; I&#8217;m going to give you each a prompt you must write a short story \/ scene describing in detail. The more zany and ridiculous, the better, honestly. However, there&#8217;s a few catches.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The words supplied by the class (i.e. the added &#8220;Mad Libs&#8221;) cannot be explicitly written in your scene. Show us, don&#8217;t tell us that your scene is about a <strong>penguin farmer<\/strong> whose evil <strong>plot<\/strong> is eliminating their essential <strong>cuteness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To complete your mission, you are going to have to rely on developing a sense of character, setting, detail, description, and dialogue. Make us feel like we are there!<\/li>\n<li>After you write your scene, post it here. We&#8217;ll then switch off reading it, as dramatically as possible. Our goal will be to guess 1) the plot \/ characters you have written about, but perhaps more importantly, what emotion \/ tone you have taken to enliven your story.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Have fun with this!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=rheoftheiphone\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rules: After we collaborate as a class to fill in a series of &#8220;Mad Libs Story Scenes,&#8221; I&#8217;m going to give you each a prompt you must write a short story \/ scene describing in detail. The more zany and ridiculous, the better, honestly. However, there&#8217;s a few catches. The words supplied by the class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/barta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}