Better late than never right... heh 😅. Excuse my late post, I've had a lot on my plate recently, you can get a little taste of that in my "Three Good Things" blog post. As of this post, I'll be answering questions in an another reflection video blog, but this time, I'll be talking about counterfactuals and how they have impacted the writing in my narrative project and even my outlook on the real life experience I tell you about. You can learn more about counterfactuals and how they give modern authors more room to explore different outcomes in the article, "What is Fan Fiction- and why is it making people nervous?" by Stephen Downes. Another great resource to read (or listen) an actual example of a story and how counterfactuals come into play is, "Rewinding and Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Head" by the Hidden Brain Podcast. In the mean time, enjoy a now, slightly less awkward and better prepared vlog by yours truly! Side note: the thumbnail is very amusing to me and I promise I'm not crazy and going off on someone in the video like how that picture depicts lmao. I look like I'm making a very strong point. ANYWAYS, I wish I knew how to change it...
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For week six, I'll be revising my post from week five, "Composing a Past Scene." Week five's post is unedited with few revisions and changes, whereas this post I asked myself some questions and changed some things based off our class reading session where we read our work to our peers and received feedback and suggestions on how to make it stronger. Here some of those suggestions come into play.
In this week’s blog post, I’ll be presenting to the reader a scene once again also taken from my life. What’s different about this post is that it takes place in the past and it displays a time where a situation and or my decisions have negatively impacted my life. An interesting read or listen (if you enjoy podcasts) that tells a story of a scene and accurately represents making choices that impact your life while using creative nonfiction can be found here for the audio podcast or here for the text transcript. It is told by famous writer, Lulu Wang.
Much like last week’s blog post, I’ll be creating a scene depicted from my life but this time with added dialogue and symbolism. The use of dialogue and symbolism is important in creative nonfiction writing because it helps develop context and underlying subtext to make a piece of writing with just simple action and description blossom into a full blown story. An example of a scene that strongly represents those two elements is called, Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway.
It’s week 3 in my lovely English 100 class and this week I was assigned to depict a scene in my life through text and to describe my surroundings at that point in time. In this post, you’ll read a detailed, little moment from my life taken out of my memory, I thought was worth sharing with you. If you want to learn more about writing scenes and what exactly I mean by a scene, check out these readings:
What Is Creative Nonfiction? By Lee Gutkind & Making Scenes In Memoir by Lee Martin |
AuthorHi! I'm Taylor Kriebel, a current student at Delaware County Community College. You're currently reading my blog assignments from my English Composition I class. Enjoy! Archives
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