Metacognition: Short Story

I wish I could say that my thought process was as comfortable and effortless as it was for the Jane Eyre writing assignment. Unfortunately, it was/is much more strenuous for the short story. For me, writing the short story feels like I am hiking up a mountain and I can never get to the top. For an unknown reason, my mind just hasn't clicked with the short story. I find myself struggling to keep it going. It has been an unpleasant surprise that my story is proving so difficult to write since I was originally quite interested in my story's plot. I feel like I am struggling to bring meaning to my story; right now it just seems like an intriguing little tale of a girl and her experience with 9/11. And some stuff happens, and then it's over. To me, my story seems like something a middle school student or elementary school student could write. It's extremely frustrating because I have no idea how to make it better, hard as I may try.
I guess it's not all bad, though! I think I have had moderate success crafting sentences and putting together some fairly good sentences. Every once in a while it happens that a nice sentence presents itself to me in my head.
Overall though, I would really like to be able to somehow have much more ease with this short story writing process. It's disappointing to me that I am struggling so much since I really enjoy this type of writing and have been looking forward to an assignment like this for a long time!

Metacognition: Jane Eyre Writing Assignment

This assignment was a collaborative effort. I had an interesting thought process for it, considering I was thinking as three different people. It was very fun to be able to write and think in the voices of and simulate the opinions of different people. And, surprisingly, it was pretty fun! Working with Jamie, we initially intended to outline our discussion. However, that seemed much too contrived an approach to achieve the outcome towards which we were striving. So instead, we decided to just start our discussion and let it lead us wherever it happened to take us. This turned out to be a very effective approach! In my mind, our discussion flowed quite naturally, and I was satisfied with the way it turned out. I think I had a more positive mindset entering this assignment than I had attacking others, because I simply enjoyed and appreciated Jane Eyre much more than I appreciated (/understood) some of the other works we have read.
Once we got rolling on our transcript, it didn't seem to take very long. The quotes and references fell into their places. We had a sort of 'eureka' moment that happened as we played around with the dialogue, and we turned that into the end of our transcript.
For me, this was one of the most satisfying projects I have ever worked on. I would be extremely grateful to have an opportunity to work on a project with this much ease in the future. I was very happy with the end result of our transcript and I hope it receives a grade that reflects that!