This week we got to short stories (or rather, Flash Fiction) and I am so excited! I love poetry of course, but short stories are one of my favorite things, both to read and to write. And the book we got has quite a few interesting ones. I really liked "Dismantling the City" but the search party story was haunting in its own right. I really look forward to working more with it. We covered a lot of different elements as to what makes a short story a story (or really, what makes any story a story) and I figured that conflict would be the most important one (or is that just hindsight bias creeping up on me?). I'm really glad that irony was included though-sometimes I mix them up! And foreshadowing is one of my favorite tools-it's always fun to see the little trails left for the reader to follow, those little 'aha!' moments.
Of course, writing my own short story was fun as well, but like all my work it seems, it turned out darker than I expected. Why can't I write anything filled with happy rainbows? But then, I guess something would have to happen to those rainbows to have an interesting story, like at the end of them there are evil little goblins that come and gobble up the people looking for the pot of gold.
I'm just not good with happy.
One of the things I'm worried about is whether or not my story makes sense. I had some ideas going in, but did I convey them correctly? Am I so ambiguous that I'm going to have a lot of alternate story interpretation-or something? I don't know, I'm not making much sense. I just-I tried to leave hints without outright saying what happens. But I do like the ending that I managed to pull of-and it came out of nowhere to boot. Regardless, I am stoked to be writing short stories! Bring em on!
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