A New Perspective in CRW3120

Part 1: Q: What's working in the draft and why do you feel that it's working? A: Sean's anger and intensity. I feel as though this is working because I tried getting into the character's mind before writing the dialogue and it came together pretty well in all honesty. Q: What needs improvement in the draft and why do you feel that it's not working? A: It feels slightly rushed, if only because I preferred to get to the action over anything else. That was the part of the story i came up with first and I could've worked that out a bit better. Q: What are the questions you'd like the workshop to address about the story? Or, what insights about how to revise after your workshop? A: I only have one question to ask. My Nature Writing professor told me that I should try to write out of my comfort zone occasionally, which is what I did with this piece. How did it come across? Menacing  or comical? Q: What is the plot of the story? What's the ma...

Post Workshop Answers: 1: Now that my story has been workshopped, I'm satisfied. Everyone gave me really good advice that'll surely help me perform a decent bit of surgery on it to improve it all in all. I know I personally didn't speak up much during classes (it changed towards the end more so because I've grown a lot more comfortable in this class and that's more than I can say for most courses I take because I never speak up) but I'll change that around and contribute more in the future. 2: The area I'm going to focus on more in my revisions have to do with the internal conflict, which was there but not completely in depth. There was far more I could've done with it but failed to do so with the first piece so now I've got a chance to improve it all. 3: Everything went well, I can't really name anything aside from the fact everything who spoke up gave me a ton to work with in terms of revision. Hopefully the same goes for workshop #2. Tha...

Magical Realism encapsulates real world situations that you'd expect in any type of genre such as action, comedy and drama, while also featuring hints of fantastical elements. What attracts me to this genre is that I can still write my favorite types of stories while also throwing in a little something extra, in this case magic, witchcraft and wizards or even little gnomes (even though Jesus sort of did something like that in his past story). As long as it doesn't deter the world into a fantasyland, that's all I need to make sure I don't do. I can't have my story take place in a magical dimension, it needs to have something relatable to it at least. The top three writers I'd considering choosing from for the next role-play would have to be- Alejo Carpentier Franz Kafka Toni Morrison The reason I chose Carpentier pretty much stems from his background. A Cuban, he had the time for his writing and the time for getting involved in other major events, such as ...