Here is a little intro on how I got started with my Narrative Project and my blog posts that helped me along the way.
Whenever I have written narratives for school in the past, I have felt like a storyteller in a way. I say this because I got to tell a story about my life and about something that I care about. This is something that catches my attention due to the fact that it wasn't book related or anything like that. I honestly don't mind narratives as long as it's about myself or at least something that isn't boring and writing a narrative last semester didn’t seem too hard for me so this one will get my undivided attention as well.
In this case I’ll be writing a Memoir about an event that happened in my life that brings out an overwhelming feeling of emotions. I know for a fact that I’m a very emotional person. I cry easily, get mad easily, you name it and my facial expressions will surely show it. If something makes an impression on me, then depending on the situation my emotions will be all over the place.
To begin my process of writing the memoir, I first composed a Letter to my Author-Self. I honestly had no connection whatsoever with my author self, so writing this post helped me become aware that there actually WAS a writer side of me I never knew I had. I made some promises to myself that would help me unleash the inner author in me more and more. Digging deeper into my writing, I now had to set a scene, with dialogue of course, which was the Writing Process Roundtable. That was when my author self slowly started to show even more. Composing this scene with the three authors really was fun to write and gave me a different outlook on the actual process of writing as well because I sometimes struggle.
Me being the emotional person that I am, writing an emotional scene is all but too easy to do. Composing and Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism was the fifth blog post assignment and it home for me. It was a scene with my dad, and I decided to use this scene because it made the greatest impact on my life. I felt my author-self spring forward because I was finally getting to write about something that touched my heart. Writing this emotional scene helped me figure out what I wanted to write about for my memoir and made me really put a lot of thought into it; the gears just started rolling.
It’s always nice to have an “alternate ending” to something. Especially if there’s a bad outcome. I personally loved composing the piece Telling Myself a Different Story: A Memoir Counterfactual. Sometimes we don’t always get what we want, or the outcome isn’t always a good outcome. In this case I was still able to tell the “what if” story, and my writer self, I feel, is fully emerged.
Whenever I have written narratives for school in the past, I have felt like a storyteller in a way. I say this because I got to tell a story about my life and about something that I care about. This is something that catches my attention due to the fact that it wasn't book related or anything like that. I honestly don't mind narratives as long as it's about myself or at least something that isn't boring and writing a narrative last semester didn’t seem too hard for me so this one will get my undivided attention as well.
In this case I’ll be writing a Memoir about an event that happened in my life that brings out an overwhelming feeling of emotions. I know for a fact that I’m a very emotional person. I cry easily, get mad easily, you name it and my facial expressions will surely show it. If something makes an impression on me, then depending on the situation my emotions will be all over the place.
To begin my process of writing the memoir, I first composed a Letter to my Author-Self. I honestly had no connection whatsoever with my author self, so writing this post helped me become aware that there actually WAS a writer side of me I never knew I had. I made some promises to myself that would help me unleash the inner author in me more and more. Digging deeper into my writing, I now had to set a scene, with dialogue of course, which was the Writing Process Roundtable. That was when my author self slowly started to show even more. Composing this scene with the three authors really was fun to write and gave me a different outlook on the actual process of writing as well because I sometimes struggle.
Me being the emotional person that I am, writing an emotional scene is all but too easy to do. Composing and Emotional Scene with Dialogue and Symbolism was the fifth blog post assignment and it home for me. It was a scene with my dad, and I decided to use this scene because it made the greatest impact on my life. I felt my author-self spring forward because I was finally getting to write about something that touched my heart. Writing this emotional scene helped me figure out what I wanted to write about for my memoir and made me really put a lot of thought into it; the gears just started rolling.
It’s always nice to have an “alternate ending” to something. Especially if there’s a bad outcome. I personally loved composing the piece Telling Myself a Different Story: A Memoir Counterfactual. Sometimes we don’t always get what we want, or the outcome isn’t always a good outcome. In this case I was still able to tell the “what if” story, and my writer self, I feel, is fully emerged.