I have really enjoyed the past week in this class. Writing the short story was by far my favorite blog post thus far. It allowed me to be creative and let my imagination do the work, not just my mind reflecting on some story we read. My story was a sort of love story, but not a typical one. The main character was round and towards the end dynamic. The only other character, “me”, was flat because I did not explain myself hardly at all, expect for my thoughts about the main character. I would say that my character shifts between static or dynamic.
My favorite part of this assignment was going outside and talking about our stories in a group. I think that my group was perfect- all of the stories in some way related to me. One thing in particular that we talked about after reading each story was why did you write this? What was on your mind at the time? I really didn’t think mine had any significance, just a random fiction story, but I realized that my story did hold some truth to it. Topics and situations that were on my mind at the time came out in my writing. I would say that mine was more of a wishful thinking type of story, but it revealed a lot about the way I thought. The last line couple lines, “’Why do you cover yourself up?’ I asked him. Without him saying anything, as if a voice from heaven I heard “for you.” At that moment I knew what he (somehow)knew all along. He was the one I have been looking for. I was the one he had been waiting for,” really puts my mind and spirit into writing. I didn’t notice this though, until after I wrote it and we were discussing the question as to why we wrote what we did on the other stories. Waiting especially and looking have really been on my heart lately in dealing with some things. I think it’s crazy that our inner thoughts can subconsciously come out when we do things such as writing.
Like I said before, I really enjoyed the other stories too. There were bits and pieces in each of that that really spoke to me and it seemed that most of them had some commonality within them.
I understand how things that are on your mind come out in stories. Mine had the same thing. Most of it was just a story but every once in a while my character was dealing with something that was on my mind. It is interesting how a character we create can be so much like us. They might think like us or respond like us. But it makes sense, right? The only thoughts we know are our own. We don't know what another person thinks or how. I could understand why a character we create thinks like us because ours is the only way of thinking we truly know.
ReplyDeleteI loved this day as well. :) Great thoughts.
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