Howdy friend. It's me again!
So the past couple of months (or however long it's been) have been pretty great. I mean, there's a bit of stress piling on, but it's not too bad. Before I say anything else, I want to preface this post by saying that I so very tired, and I really can't think straight. So if the writing is a little choppy and not as eloquent as usual, I sincerely apologize.
I'm taking some pretty cool classes this semester! Well, they're cool for the most part. I've got English, French, Anthropology, Religions and Fiction Writing.
Yes, you read that correctly! I'm taking a fiction writing class. Now, I'm able to share my pretentious thoughts and feelings with the a classroom of 20 people in the form of a fictional story.
So at the beginning of the semester, we picked groups to join, each group having four people each. And each week, a certain group will have a deadline by which they must write a short story. It can be about anything, really, so long as it's at least 1,500 words. And after we had finished writing the stories and turned them in, the whole class would read the four stories and we'd sit in class and critique them.
I, of course, wanted to sign up for as soon as possible so I'd be able to swiftly show everyone what I'm made of. I ended up getting into the second group, which made me really happy!
But on the week of my deadline, however, I kept putting the assignment off, as I was experiencing a severe case of writer's block. I mean, I knew WHAT I wanted to write, but I didn't know how the story should be told. I hadn't fleshed out any of the details.
On the final day, I ended up panicking, knowing that my story was due by 5PM the next day. I ended up staying up all night, trying to perfect the story. To be honest, at this point, I had wished that I could have used the story that I had written and posted to the blog: Happiness Along the Way, but I'm sure my teacher would have found out about it. Despite everything, though, at around 8 in the morning on Tuesday, I finally had finished it, and I rejoiced! But man, was I tired.
As for the story, I'm not too sure. It was an odd one. But I'm sure you could have guessed that already. I wanted to try something that very few writers dare to delve into (for very good reason, of course): 2nd person point-of-view. And knowing my affinity for horror and thrillers, I knew that I wanted to take my readers for a ride through my sick mind. With this story, all I really wanted to do was affect the reader emotionally. I wanted them to feel something that the other stories from my group wouldn't make them feel. I wanted to stand out, really. It wasn't for the attention, of course, but rather to know that I could unconventionally make art on par, or even better, than my classmates.
Unfortunately, I don't think my piece hit the mark. I'm not really proud of this one the way I was with my other story. I guess readers really couldn't connect with this one the way the other one did. This one is more abstract, more open to interpretation. See, I understand how people don't like it; I'm not too pleased with it myself, but what gets on my nerves is that absolutely NO ONE in the class understood what the story was about. It's actually in the text, so I didn't think it'd be that hard. I felt kind of insulted as they sat in the circle, looking at each other theorycrafting as to who the antagonist of the story was. To be honest, when it came to be my turn to comment on everyone's feedback, I was speechless, and hardly said anything. I wasn't mad or anything, just disappointed. I was disappointed for having written it, and disappointed that they didn't get it.
That being said, I've posted the story to my WattPad, so anyone who'd like to read it is able to do so. I know it has a couple of grammar errors because I typed it when I was tired, but I really don't care. Maybe you'll be able to understand what the story is about. All you have to do is dig a little deeper than you normally would.
https://www.wattpad.com/218214608-the-narrator
My next piece is going to be a romance story. I don't plan on posting it for a multitude of reasons, one of which being that I'm sure you guys are sick of reading about love from me. Haha.
Well, I guess that's it for now! I'm really exhausted, and how I was able to write this entire post is certainly beyond me.
Talk to y'all soon.
~Jacob
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