Narrative Project Preface
When I have written narratives in my past, they've been difficult for me to get through. I’m definitely not a good story teller, nor do like that genre of writing much. In grade school I learned the basics to writing essays and short stories and a little poetry. I really wasn’t a fan of writing, because it wasn’t something that piqued my interest. While writing Narratives in high school, I struggled with them. Most times it frustrated me, trying to make sense of how they are written, and I never really grasped the whole concept of a Narrative. I thought of it as an autobiography type of project more than anything. For me narratives were always very complicated and frustrating therefore they made me hate writing them. In my English composition I course my goal is to be a better writer and make meaning by putting effort into my writing. I want what I’m writing to grab the readers interest and hold on to it so they enjoy and understand what I have written.
Welcome to my Narrative Project page. On this page I will be posting my drafts for my Narrative Project. Each draft will have improvements made to it, hopefully, to make it better. I used the scene that I started to convey in Blog #5 Composing an Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism, which I revised once, and went through the rest of the painstaking process that I went through to participate in Hot Rod Magazines’ Pump Gas Drags. Normally I’m not a very emotional person, I don’t show a lot of emotion at any time, people who know me actually say sometimes they have to a mirror under my nose to see if I’m alive. So, for me to get excited, jump through hoops and argue with my employer to get what I need to go racing, then it is important to me.
I haven’t written anything like this for a long time, it wasn’t until I had to compose Blog #4 Writing Process Roundtable, that I had to revisit it, and write a fictional scene about meeting three authors and asking them questions about the writing process. The return to writing of any kind started for me with Blog #3 A Letter to my Author-Self in which I had to write a letter to my author self asking for forgiveness for not using him enough though the years and try to reacquaint myself with him. Once these were finished I had to go back to Blog #5 and ask the “what if” questions about it and write Blog #6 Telling Myself a Different Story: A Memoir Counterfactual which was an assignment to think about what if your scene had a different ending, or you said or did something differently in it, or it just happened a completely different way, what would that look like. In Blog #7 My Narrative Project: A Wizard-of-Oz Journey, where I had to write a rationale response to five questions about my Narrative Project. All of these blog posts illustrate the progress I have made in my writing, and have also helped me to start developing my own writing process.
When I have written narratives in my past, they've been difficult for me to get through. I’m definitely not a good story teller, nor do like that genre of writing much. In grade school I learned the basics to writing essays and short stories and a little poetry. I really wasn’t a fan of writing, because it wasn’t something that piqued my interest. While writing Narratives in high school, I struggled with them. Most times it frustrated me, trying to make sense of how they are written, and I never really grasped the whole concept of a Narrative. I thought of it as an autobiography type of project more than anything. For me narratives were always very complicated and frustrating therefore they made me hate writing them. In my English composition I course my goal is to be a better writer and make meaning by putting effort into my writing. I want what I’m writing to grab the readers interest and hold on to it so they enjoy and understand what I have written.
Welcome to my Narrative Project page. On this page I will be posting my drafts for my Narrative Project. Each draft will have improvements made to it, hopefully, to make it better. I used the scene that I started to convey in Blog #5 Composing an Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism, which I revised once, and went through the rest of the painstaking process that I went through to participate in Hot Rod Magazines’ Pump Gas Drags. Normally I’m not a very emotional person, I don’t show a lot of emotion at any time, people who know me actually say sometimes they have to a mirror under my nose to see if I’m alive. So, for me to get excited, jump through hoops and argue with my employer to get what I need to go racing, then it is important to me.
I haven’t written anything like this for a long time, it wasn’t until I had to compose Blog #4 Writing Process Roundtable, that I had to revisit it, and write a fictional scene about meeting three authors and asking them questions about the writing process. The return to writing of any kind started for me with Blog #3 A Letter to my Author-Self in which I had to write a letter to my author self asking for forgiveness for not using him enough though the years and try to reacquaint myself with him. Once these were finished I had to go back to Blog #5 and ask the “what if” questions about it and write Blog #6 Telling Myself a Different Story: A Memoir Counterfactual which was an assignment to think about what if your scene had a different ending, or you said or did something differently in it, or it just happened a completely different way, what would that look like. In Blog #7 My Narrative Project: A Wizard-of-Oz Journey, where I had to write a rationale response to five questions about my Narrative Project. All of these blog posts illustrate the progress I have made in my writing, and have also helped me to start developing my own writing process.
Narrative Project Drafts