November 2, 2009
I’d like to consider myself a pretty decent writer. Fiction, essays, speeches, the like. Though in no way would I ever consider myself a good blogger. So we’ll see how this fiction writing blog writing assignment goes. (Ha)
I’ll start by writing about what I enjoy writing about. (See this is too easy to make fun of!) First: zombies. I think it’s my slight obsession with zombie movies/books such as Stephen King’s “Cell” that makes me so interested in writing about them. I think a zombie apocalypse would literally be the coolest thing to go through EVER. If I don’t get to slay some zombie ass at some point and time in my life, I will be severely disappointed. My life won’t be complete. Writing about them is, in my own special way, like being there and living in my story. Another thing that I enjoy writing about is tragedies. It’s pretty hard for me to write a happy go lucky story. Actually, it’s close to impossible. Hookers, hit men, teenage pregnancies, suicide pacts, etc. I know it’s gory and I should probably step out of my own personal boundaries and try to write about something different, but I just… would really rather not.
Mostly I’m into memoirs, but I do like the occasional fiction book. “The Bell Jar” is probably my favorite, or, maybe “I Just Want My Pants Back”. Lots of Jodi Piccoult work is pretty good too, but lots of her plots repeat themselves. !984 and The Grapes of Wrath are two other favorite fiction novels of mine, also. I love to read, and I read fast and I get really into it. It’s like when you’re so involved in a story, and you just get sucked into it. It’s a way of escaping for a while for me.
The next fiction story I’d like to write about is something completely out of my element. For the past year or two I haven’t been able to finish a short story, and I think it might be something to do with the fact that they almost all have the same, slightly brutal or morbid plot. Although it’s my favorite to write about, I think I need a change and a challenge. Maybe then I can actually finish what I started, and after that I can go back to what I like to write about and hopefully be able to finish it. I need a lot of help though, because I’m so horrible at conclusions. I always have been. In almost any writing I have to do, I either sum it up by some great series of events happening, so the climax is the end of the story, or I just bluntly end it. (Or I never finish it…) I need some serious tips on that.
that wraps up my first blog assignment. maybe i’ll do one on my own freewill next time, cause it wasnt so bad >.<
