Week 8

This week read a couple articles that discussed different tools that are helpful to look at when writing flash fiction. These articles were very helpful as I worked on the exercises at the ends of the readings. It was also very beneficial to have the examples of a few different short stories to get the idea of what the exercise was looking for.

These articles definitely made me think about what I like to write about. The prompts given in the article we read for the second assignment this week were very interesting to look at. It is interesting to think of all the different topics that come to mind when I think about just one line. There are so many possibilities, so many things that can be written about. As I did these writing exercises I really found myself opening up with what I was writing. The short stories for me have been a useful tool in organizing some of my thoughts and actually writing something down. After writing for these assignments, I would look back and think about a lot of what I wrote. When writing these stories, it seems that the words come so naturally and looking back on what I write can be interesting a lot of times because I have written about things that I will not usually talk about very often.

This week presented many things for me. Looking at the different short short examples really allowed me to get familiar with the feeling of short stories. They were short and sweet but really did a good job of presenting a story. Again, it was very interesting to see the inspiration from a single line prompt an entire story. This is interesting to think about as we write, what is making us write what we do? There are so many different things that can be written about, but for some reason, as we write these stories, something, maybe a specific word or even just the idea of the words, can inspire your entire story. I think this really came out in the second exercise as the prompts put different ideas in my mind. As I read through the prompts I thought of something I could write about for each one. But the one I chose for some reason stuck out, and it was very easy to let the rest of the story flow from the idea that came to mind after reading the very short prompt that lead to a story I have probably never written. Many ideas came out that I did not necessarily realize the thoughts, but for some reason was able to write a whole story from it.