Literary Narrative Lab

1. One good visual description was in "Lydia's story" when Brideau mentioned, "The whole street looked like a river, and water poured in. (P.129, paragraph 6)
2. "She described it as 'rushing like the Colorado river'" (P. 129, paragraph 6)
3. A sense that stood out to me was in Lydia's story, "we found the inside uncomfortably cold from the air conditioner" (P. 128, paragraph 2)
4. Possible Essay Topics:
-30 pg. Story in creative writing class
-learning the Japanese alphabet when I was 6
-Coming up with a rap song on the tennis team.
5. Purpose: I want to tell the story of my 30 page fictional story I was required to write in my creative writing class in my junior year of high school. I want to tell others my experience of turning it in the last minute, barely getting it in time, and how, instead, I should've been more proficient with my time.
6. Audience: My Audience will be geared towards teenagers/ young adults because this short story that I wrote has a selective audience. It is a story that only has few relatable moments, that's why it is fictional.
7. Stance: I want to take on a serious yet creative stance on this subject. I want the story of how i got to write this short novel to be taken seriously but also taken into consideration that it was an important piece that I should've been more serious about.
8. Media/ Design: I won't have any visual or digital designs for this story, rather a story focused on the intent of listening and appreciating the simplistic mindset of developing thoughts and putting them onto paper.
9. What do you see?
I am in the classroom, and I am working on a laptop. Around me are students focusing with their eyes glued to their papers, and other students throwing erasers at each other. I can sense people whispering but I am focused on my paper. However, I do see Mona Lisa's eyes reading over my shoulder from the wall behind me...
10. What do you hear?
I hear students clicking their pens, tapping on keyboards, and scooting their chairs. I hear my breathing and the girl next to mine, who has recently gotten over a cold and is quite sniffly.
11. What do you smell?
I smell plastic. I smell a dusty carpet. I smell the mint from my gum. And thankfully, the person that threw up was in the room over fro mine, where i couldn't smell but heard about later. Phew!
12. How do you feel?
I feel content, but I only have about a week to write this paper but I'm not even halfway and I have writer's block! But... I'm staying calm.
13. What do you taste?
I taste the my minty gum, filling my senses and clearing my head.
14. The other students...they look like me, but in a different way. I remember the one girl that sad beside me having long, straight brown hair, and the girl next to her having a blue streak in her hair along with a nose ring. I liked the diversity, however I don't think there was a single person in that class without brown hair.
15. The dialogue going around was very minimal, if you ignored the small whispers and little snorts. Most of the dialogue i recall was the one in my head.
16. The actions of the other students were very similar to mine. Nervous for only having a week left to do this project, but relieved that we had class time to do it. That resulted in fidgety students, getting up very often to go to the bathroom, or crouching next to my teacher's desk to ask a question. There were a few oddballs doing things like taking pictures of a gummy bear on the ceiling though...
17. This whole situation was significant for me because this was a 30 page MINIMUM assignment due before the end of the semester for a grade in that class. My teacher would NOT take no for an answer for an excuse as to why your paper wasn't done. This was the longest story I had ever written and it was difficult to put myself in the place of an author that does this on an every day basis. I learned a lot of self-discipline from this project, especially because my initial focus wasn't taking it seriously. But in the end, with it barely getting in on time, I learned from my mistakes, and learned how to better deal with my time.