Group workshopping

Group workshops helped me direct my focus when going back to do revisions and adding on to my stories to the sections people weren't focusing on as heavy so that attention would be drawn to every page of the work.  What was also helpful was feedback on characters dialogue, making the characters seem more fluid and different from each other is what can draw readers in further.  Writing is about immersing a reader into the story and group workshop really helped pull my focus to that, instead of writing for myself, I was writing for my characters and what they would do or say.  A skill like being able to focus on the nuances of my main character was important to me when it came to my last story and the final group workshop we did really helped me out.

Writing Process

My writing process is very sporadic, I sit down in 30 minute intervals, writing down what comes to my mind, it a very free flow process, and if I sit down and write for too long my focus on the main plot of my stories begin to get lost in the detail.  It is very easy for me to get side tracked from the main plot, which is why I tend to get up and take a break every so often. My favorite writer who happens to be Ian Fleming, tends to focus on heavy detailing and his writing process would be going to Jamaica for weeks at a time, and all he would do all day is just sit at the typewriter and type all day.

http://www.hiwrite.com/ian.html
HIs wife made him write

Story Beginnings

As I read the Boyle's "Caviar" I notice that there are things that are continually left out that just happen to phase into the story later and the reader is left non the wiser until that moment.  It constantly had me looking back to see if anything was mentioned about the cheating, or the lust from Nat to Wendy. Each time I was always looking back and always catching how clever Boyle is in his writing, it gave me elements and ways of writing to use in my stories in the future. Writing that make me constantly think as a reader always has me coming back for more.

Introduction to Fiction Writing

One of my favorite writers would have to be Ian Fleming, and his James Bond character, the novels are so politically intertwined with a mix of real world politics and fictional enemies.  That it makes for such an iteresting read with the philosophies that come up in the books such as, "
“You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face.”
From the novel, You Only Live Twice.

http://commanderbond.net/6190/literary-007-reviewed-ian-flemings-you-only-live-twice.html

And a link to a small biography of Ian Fleming.
http://www.klast.net/bond/flem_bio.html

Post-Modern Fiction

Running through the rain
Sitting in the house
Dripping wet from head to toe
Long awaiting dinner to be ready

The gap grows further until he is alone

But she is still waiting alone at home
Knock Knock Knock
The door creaks open and she looks down upon him
And there he stands alone in the rain

The panic runs through her veins
Missing that small creature
Hoping it would return soon
The rain pounding and pounding on the windshield
The water is washing over like a tidal wave

All hope is lost once they arrive at the wood
Scampering and scurrying lost in the leaves
The wind kicks up and drags her about
The little boy doesn't know the difference between the woods and the forest

Left or                                       Right
Over
or
Under
Trying to find shelter (inside) or out()side

Spotting the lights in between the trees
Looking for it's way home
To it's masters wet embrace.
Running to the lights looking for escape
CRACK lightning hits the tree
CREAK CRACK SLAM
The car has been crushed.
The little boy is nowhere in sight
Ruff Ruff Ruff
The tiny dog is licking his face
the woman is on her knees crying on the phone
waiting on the ambulance to come

Editing

I've been looking for ways to improve my mystery story where the narrator was reliving the same moment of realization i was writing it down in my notebook whether I should take him out of the room earlier and continuing the story from there I just don't know where to put this room at in the world.

Short story comments

I was reading over some of the comments my cassmates made about the 2 pages we brought in for last class, the main issues they had with my work was that in some cases where the narrator should have problems with his vision things should not be as quickly recognizable. The narrator should be more disoriented in speech and description but if the narrator is recounting a past experience these things could be clearer in description as he is recalling it.  The progress that I would want to make is give him a more confusing account to draw the reader in more because what I strive for is to make the reader feel the same rush the narrator is experiencing so that my work becomes a page turner that the reader can't put down.