Category: WRT 312- Journals

Daphne: I would say this is the story of being haunted by one’s reality, or hanuted by something one is trying to get away from. I’m still grappling on which is better suited for the story. First off, your attention to detail in this story […]

Mackie: I would say your story is the story of a right person but not the right time. Overall, its written very well. You can picture the narrator while she goes through the motions almost like a camera following her. I think using first person […]

Bullets of what I have learned about the writing process through Story #1

Coco, I thought this was a really interesting story! Thinking about “what” this story is, I would say it is the story of unrequited love or the reality of grieving someone still living. The amount of descripton ou used in the story really drove it […]

Dear Cammy, This is the story of a main character named April living with the guilt of her past mistakes. More specifically, allowing her partner to take the fall for a crime so she can pursue her future. I liked how you opened the story […]

For this chapter, I was really interested in the section that used O’Connors example to explain how theme is often subliminal and subject to perspective, but if the writer knows their theme, then the audience will receive it. Also, how to still have guardrails on […]

Lizzie: From my understanding, this story is about a mother-daughter duo in the midst of some supernatural emergency. It seemed that Janine was experiencing a transformation while her mother, Margot, was tending to her. The first thing that I liked about this story was how […]