Blog #4: Fiction

I found that writing about fiction was really interesting and made me think a alot about the elements of the story and it helps to make the story more enjoyable. Writing fiction on the other hand was just fun. It was fun to come up with a persona that was like me in a way but not like me in others. It was cool to make the character use the dorky jokes that I wouldn't neccesarily use. Actually, I probably would say the dorky jokes anyway.

I'm not sure what impact writing about fiction had on my fiction writing because I have spent the last two years writing about fiction and not really writing a lot of fiction. At any rate, this writing about fiction didnt have much of an effect on my story but I imagine the last two years of writing about fiction has in some ways. I certainly am familiar with the elements of fiction but in my writing I didn't think much about that. All I really thought about was being at least a little funny and therefore interesting. I used the circumstances prompt and tried to make all the detail unnecessary or at least, strange. I got a kick out of it.

I will surely have my students write about fiction in my classes but I might not use the writing of actual fiction in all my classes. I do think that it helps to understand the elements of fiction and how they are used which could make reading it more interesting for students but I don't think that I will always need to make it more interesting as long as they can relate to it in some way.