Last week I set a goal to either write something new or rewrite something significantly for my class tonight. I started writing a short story that I've been thinking about for awhile now (it covers a significant event in the back story of one of the characters in my novel). I also decided that I would use this short story to display all the nifty techniques we learned in my other class, including the shifting emotional consciousness of Virginia Wolfe's To the Lighthouse.
So far, I don't think it's working very well. I've never written from a more omniscient-like POV before (i.e. shifting from one character's head to another's in one scene). I usually write in third person, but stay with one character for a whole scene. Anyway, I don't like what I have so far. I don't know if that's because I'm not getting the inner voices of the characters right, or if it's too choppy. There's something wrong. Which is all right because I don't have to turn the story in for grading until next Thursday (but that's along with 2 other things I haven't started yet, sigh).
But tonight I have to give what I have writen now over for my other class to look at and pretend they are editors. In a way, that's good, because I may get some useful comments. But in another way that's bad because they might not like it and then I'll feel bummed.
And I've been feeling bummed a lot recently. And for no good reason at all.
Ok, bright side. They probably won't hate it. I'm not getting graded on it or anything. I can completely change it if it doesn't go over well. I should NOT let myself get worked up over this. I must remember to breathe.
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