We continued with flash fiction this week, which by no means am I angry about. I enjoy this type of creative writing. We read Fireworks and Burnt toast and performed the exercise using one of the five prompts given to help jump start creativity, I enjoyed the lively description of "fireworks" that are used to keep the attention of the audience. Short shorts are great for that and serve as a great functional basis for teaching students about writing without putting them to sleep, and it has therapeutic uses as well. I missed the class on Monday, but I heard through the grapevine that we did a short story about what had happened to us lately and rewrote it using less common words. My imitation submitted earlier in the week for the "firework" exercise almost mimics that a bit. It was a vague description of what my family and I went through right as this semester started, my grandma passed and no doctor in northeast Ohio could figure out what was wrong with her, ended up being the first diagnosed case of the disease in that region. It helped to get that off my chest. Wednesday, we created a setting and a character based on bits and pieces of recollections and memories of people and used direct and indirect description of the character. I ended up using a lot of direct but ended up using indirect with the first person narrator pretty much telling his emotions for the described.
Thinking about the artistic process and using prompts or using a list of descriptors, it definitely has a element of help to it and almost puts a writer at ease when going into a piece. I don't know if I can say I prefer it that way or not. It depends a lot on the subject at hand but in either situation I seem to be able to muscle through and give a effort I can be proud to say I wrote. It's when the assignments have to many parameters that I tend to show the chinks in the armor.
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