Well not going to lie, the personal narrative has me a little bit freaked out. Im one of those people who tell stories all the time but when it comes to writing a paper about one im lost… not good. So yea this is going to be interesting. But I definitely can handle a rough draft especially cause class was cancelled tomorrow. Don’t get me wrong. Class is great and everything but I could really use that hour to get ahead in my classes. So yea, I think Im going to write about an experience that I had as a little kid, so the dialogue is going to be difficult cause I can’t remember a whole lot about it. But in case anyone was wondering my title for the personal narrative is “Earning my Crescent Moon”.
It’s basically a short story about one of the worst babysitting experiences I have ever had. (I being the one babysat, so go figure). Hopefully I can add enough details to make it interesting, maybe a little humorous. But overall I hope people get the same thing out of my experience through writing as I did living it.
I think Im going to start just with an outline, somehow that seems to work the best. This whole vomiting on paper doesn’t work with me. There aren’t a whole lot of “creative juices” that flow through my veins. (I mean, if you look at my family we are all engineers, not English majors…) And as far as letting the madman out…. I guess I can do that… but it’s practically impossible to get him back into his cage so the janitor can clean up. So we’ll see how this goes…
Haha I think you don't even need to worry. Your voice comes through your writing so strongly that I'm sure you can make a good narrative out of your story. And, as our teacher says, you can totally just lie and make up dialogue.
ReplyDeleteBesides, from the writing I've seen on your blog, I feel like you'll do just fine writing your story. Even your blog posts are entertaining, so I'm sure you'll be able to pull off a story.