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Fiction Reflection

Much like creative non-fiction, writing fiction has been a transformative, crystallizing experience that served to draw together my scattered experiences in out-of-class writing into a recognizable enjoyment of making stuff up. So, in other words, It showed me that I like to make up stories. The chance to just let loose and see what happened [...]

Posted 26 April 2006 † Yuletide § Fiction § Meta § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

The Earring (v3 95% done)

Who could she be? Hal pictured her clearly as he played with the earring’s dangling silver shards; he saw her walking into his cafe with a look of conscious poise that only barely betrayed her distress. He was hypnotized by the swirl of her solitary earring. He cursed as the double soy latte he was [...]

Posted 26 April 2006 † Yuletide § Fiction § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Earring Refuse

Here is all the stuff that Barbara helped me cut from my short story, preserved for posterity. Every day Hal rode the e line home from work. He would walk the two blocks down Main Street past the bustling bistros and boutiques, down into the damp underbelly of the city. He rode the rickety. He [...]

Posted 26 April 2006 † Yuletide § Fiction § Snippets § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °

Fiction Close Reading: The Communist by Richard Ford

< p> Fiction Close Reading: The Communist by Robert Ford Richard Ford demonstrates several useful techniques in his short story The Communist I have chosen to focus on the final two paragraphs (page 542). He creates vivid imagery that serves to stop time in the story, and take up space, filling out the scene. The [...]

Posted 26 April 2006 † Yuletide § Fiction § Reading as a Writer § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °