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!
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