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I am obscenely happy about this story.

I was anxious about it, of course; the only thing I truly liked was the climax; but I was anxious about the majority of it in the middle, which I thought might be vague and pointless building-up which did nothing; I was (justifiably) anxious about the ending, which I thought was totally inappropriate and trite and not at all doing anything to address the main issues of the story. I'm still going to rewrite it and lots of bits, I have feedback which I have not yet incoporated, I'm only changed some typos and wording here and there.

But my professor was extremely complimentary about it, and he is not usually one to go overboard with compliments, etc.; and I mean to work on this story until I'm ready to submit it somewhere. :)

SO! Concrit, yeah, bring it all on. I know lots of things need lots of tweaking...if you want me to send the Word file to you so you can make comments/corrections throughout, I'll totally do it. :)

( Punctuality )

Something I just finished AN HOUR AGO. SERIOUSLY.

Because it's not like I'm posting stuff here that I'm ready to submit to publication. This was intended to just have my desperate attempts at original stuff, half-finished stuff and really bad stuff (*cough*lastsemester), etc. So I just wrote this. I had a very certain mood I wanted to capture, and it took me a little while to get into it, but I think I managed it in parts.

It is creative nonfiction. Oooooh. I'm taking a class on it this semester, and we have a great anthology with pieces that are just amaaaazing and really inspirational. (Side note for the ~~story~~ essay beneath: it was an essay from that anthology I read before falling asleep. "High Tide in Tuscan" by Barbara Kingslover. Not my favorite, but still quite good, and I love The Bean Trees. On a related note, my anthology for my Short Story class [Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories] has just really weird ones that, apart from a couple exceptions, only leave me going, "WTF?" to some degree. Even the ones I like, like Gogol's "The Nose," are WTF. The story I read yesterday, for today's class, was "Her Table Spread" by Elizabeth Bowen. Just, no.)

( On Deciding to Skip Class )

Current Location: doorknob reflection

ZOMG.

I just wrote something. (Original.) And I freaking like it.

(When has this happened before? Pretty much never!)

It's for an assignment - due tomorrow, naturally, though I actually wrote the first two parts last week (the night before I thought it was due). I'll put the part I'm excited about on top, though.

(Do not ask any questions. There is no backstory developed. I have no clue what's going on and probably won't expand it. All I know is that it's actually rather exciting and interesting and may actually succeed with creating some interesting voices and interest in, you know, the story. Also, it's only a little over 300 words. I have really low standards right now.)

( examples of the three types of dialogue )

Meanwhile, I did write two longer stories of about, um, five thousand words each. I meant to post them here, but right now I can't stand to look at them, though I suspect those feelings are more habitual justified. I have to revise them anyway eventually. I should post them. But not tonight.

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Location: I WIN (wooden success, v. rare icon)

My last "full-length" short story for the class. I just got back my critiques this morning, but it really needed the least amount of work of any of my short stories this semester. Also, about an hour ago I finally figured out a way to do what I had been pondering all evening (develop a couple characters before I kill them off). Yay.

It's inspired by something I wrote in eighth grade, which I frequently think of as the best thing I've ever written. Not really true...fortunately...but still damn good for eighth grade, and I often wistfully think of the easy, simple way I wrote it. I re-read the original before starting this, and it was hard to break out of the same lines and characters. One in particular slowly, unintentionally, ended up quite different from how I had her in the original - I hope it's read as a subtle and smooth revelation of her true state of mind. Hem.

Just for clarification, it is half-parody. I say half because it started off fully meant to be as much of a parody as the original was, but it ended up being much more serious and dark than I had expected. I also nearly lost sight of my original theme, but fortunately some help of my classmates pointed me to the way to tie it all together.

I don't think I've ever realized before that there are branches and leaves in the background of this icon. W00t.

( The Philosophy of Leaves )

Current Location: never give them a thought

Our professor gave us a prompt to "capture a picture" - show the entire narrative behind it, in just a couple pages. It's funny, I started mine about one a.m. the day it was due - and I had also just started my NaNo novel (yes, I'm doing that for the first time), so it was an abrupt switch and I actually had to catch myself: WHOA, this is not just for word count, this is for CLASS and a GRADE. Nevertheless - something really interesting happened, and my professor told me afterward that he really thought it was excellent. I do too now, reading it again. It was a little worrisome at first because the theme is so dramatized!high school - but I think I pulled it off. I really like my last three paragraphs.

Also, there is very subtle slash.

About the picture - I do watch

foto_decadent , though I don't have a large appreciation for the really strange stuff in it. I best like the classy, well-done portraits of everyday life. Like this one - it has a number of favorites in it.

( a story, if you can call it that )

( the picture )

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Entries tagged with oh my god i like it

Punctuality (written March 2009)

On Deciding to Skip Class (creative nonfiction, written today)

THERE IS HOPE. (in dialogue)

The Philosophy of Leaves

Capturing a picture (classroom)

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