Saturday, January 21, 2006

Second Day at Creative Writing Class

We spent the whole class working on the differences between Showing and Telling in writing. We had an exercise where we had to re-write a scene and make it more showing. Mine stunk. Not that I couldn't write using imagery and the senses, but I just couldn't write under pressure. I wrote, I crossed out, I wrote some more, I crossed out some more. It was painful.

Also, I have noticed that my dominant voice is first person. Anything I write in third person generally sucks. Go figure.

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