Writing with Feechies (The Bark of the Bog Owl)

Lessons 1-3

Lesson 1: Setting and Originality

Lesson 2: Third-Person Close Narration

Lesson 3: Bayard, Subjectivity, Objectivity

Lessons 4-6

Lesson 4: Where Did Feechiefolk Come From?

Lesson 5: The Wilderking Chant

Lesson 6: Writing In-Scene and Out-of-Scene

Lessons 7-9

Lesson 7: Incongruity

Lesson 8: Into the Swamp

Lesson 9: Among the Feechies

Lessons 10-12

Lesson 10: Moving Parts

Lesson 11: Fishing Trip, Feechie Feast

Lesson 12: Foreshadowing, Expectations

Lessons 13-15

Lesson 13: Judgment, Motive

Lesson 14: Greidawl

Lesson 15: The False Peak

Lessons 16-18

Lesson 16: The Miner Scouts

Lesson 17: Narrative Layers

Lesson 18: Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

Lesson 7: Incongruity

Writing Exercise

Write a scene in which a person, animal, or thing is completely and spectacularly out of place.