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.)
THERE IS HOPE. (in dialogue)
Nov. 12th, 2008 01:19 amZOMG.
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.
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.
Capturing a picture (classroom)
Nov. 5th, 2007 05:04 pmOur 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![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.( the picture )
Quid Pro Quo
Oct. 10th, 2007 07:46 pmThis proved muses really do work best at 2:30 a.m.
Prompt was only pure dialogue. I love dialogue. This made me never want to write narration again.
It's interesting - I began this with the vague intention to do some clever parallel work, so at the climax I would cleverly draw out the story of what brought her there - and then as it went along, I realized that wasn't necessary at all, and that the aim of the story was to make as many Hannibal Lecter references as possible. Whee.
Prompt was only pure dialogue. I love dialogue. This made me never want to write narration again.
It's interesting - I began this with the vague intention to do some clever parallel work, so at the climax I would cleverly draw out the story of what brought her there - and then as it went along, I realized that wasn't necessary at all, and that the aim of the story was to make as many Hannibal Lecter references as possible. Whee.
The Weight of a Compliment
Oct. 10th, 2007 07:28 pmAnother short writing exercise. Prompt was...a moment that seemed ordinary to everyone around, but to the central character, was huge. And to demonstrate that.
I didn't really succeed; should have thought harder of a way to do it without requiring backstory, but at the time, it seemed necessary. Anyway, I do like the tiny bit of dialogue at the end.
I didn't really succeed; should have thought harder of a way to do it without requiring backstory, but at the time, it seemed necessary. Anyway, I do like the tiny bit of dialogue at the end.
( Nita )
And more recent stuff (newspapers)
Sep. 18th, 2007 07:53 pmJust wrote this a few weeks ago for my Writing class. We were restricted to two to three pages (double-spaced), and our prompt was change: as subtle and creative as we could make it. I thought long and hard, and am rather proud with at least the idea I came up with.
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