Weekly post 3-19-2015

The fiction essays are a very different form of writing from what we've been doing in either poetry or story writing. Because they are sometimes not true but are written as though they are true even though they are not.

I chose to write a single story for my fiction portfolio, my mind works better in longer stories that are measured in pages not paragraphs. Short stories just seem exactly that, too short, I don't have the time I want to set up the exposition, setting, and characters in stories that short. So I wrote just one.

3/12/2015

This week we went in depth on Indigo and Night Women, my group in particular went into Night Women which was an interesting piece. Night Women has a lot of vivid language when describing things and a certain amount of innuendo due to the subject matter. While it has a lot of vivid details the are often used to write around the main points that are being avoided. Like a black spot the way the details are written draws a vivid picture around the main ideas without specifically describing them. It never states she is a prostitute the vague wording implies it, her son's age is never mentioned but it is implied he is very young, exactly why these men come to her is never stated. The way the author writes around these details leads to an interesting structure.

Weekly post for 3/5/2015

The girl with the blackened eye was a really striking story, in how it was written and what is was about. The story gives an immense amount of detail but still manages to keep several important details a secret, the names of the characters for example are never said, but there is still a staggering amount of detail in the description of the places and things going on. What's especially interesting is how well she details the mental struggle going on in the story, which is often much harder to pull off properly than the simple physical details.