Fiction

This piece was the very first one we did and I thought it would be the hardest considering I lack creativity but I enjoyed having the freedom to create whatever type of piece came to mind. There were no rules in what you wanted to write and having the space to create something new was refreshing. While writing I had some small inspiration from my personal life and I felt this was okay because inspiration often comes from self experiences or world connections. I didn’t know what I wanted my story to be about, but at the time of brainstorming I created one. It was after my classes and I had to pick up my little brother, but I didn’t want to wait at my mom’s job which is typically what I do. We had argued the night before about something small, so I didn’t want to face her, but my mom’s a nail tech and I wanted to get my nails done. So I brought her our favorite drink from Starbucks and hoped for the best. She didn’t deny me my manicure and I saw that it was something which brings us together. I thought it would be cute to create a story about a mother and daughter relationship, and it felt almost natural to write it.

Poems

Poems were one the difficult writing pieces, because I didn’t want mine to be about past relationships and I really had no clue what emotion I wanted to evoke on to my readers. I didn’t want it to be difficult to understand because I personally hate when you have to overthink meaning to poems, so I tried my best to write something which was straightforward. I used a prompt given to us in class because it was meaningful and although it speaks on my past relationship it flowed really well with what I what I felt while living it. Writing my second piece was eyeopening because I had never self-diagnosed myself with anxiety, until I knew for sure and I had suspicions of it because I feel out of place when I’m uncomfortable and the first thing I want to do is leave. When it came to writing it, I tried my best to tell what anxiety felt like for me, but I could’ve improved on how I showed it and planted imagery onto the readers.

Memoir

At first, I had no clue how I would go on with writing my memoir because I didn’t know which part of my life was meaningful enough to write about. By the end of it I saw that these were the most important ones to write because it gave me inside look of who I am as a person and what has made me, well me. This was the piece I had to present to the class and I didn’t want to be judged when people wrote it, so I started with something small a relatable to us as college students. I wrote two, because the first one did come off as a personal statement rather than a Memoir, and once I shared the thing that bothered me with the class, I felt more open to not only the class but myself. I was able to do something uncommon to me which was to write about my life and the struggles my family faced. My families divorce shaped who became and writing my personal statement couldn’t compare to what my new Memoir meant to me. It helped me learn about myself and open myself to writing about my trauma’s instead of acting like they never happen. Opening myself up to have emotions was a big step for me and the writing of my second memoir was something I needed.

Dialogue

I wrote this with the one pal, Igli, I had in class and I wasn’t sure exactly where we would go with it. In this class we had a lot of freedom to write about whatever we wanted as long as it followed the skills taught in class, like ”show don’t tell”. This was hard to do considering it was more acting than using descriptive language, but I assumed presenting the dialogue would balance out the showing. We chose to write something that’s an issue in society and important for others to know about. At first I was scared to write about such a delicate topic such as abortion, but it’s an important and serious issue to women. I found it important to include both sides of abortion, pro-life and pro-choice but our main goal was to focus on pro-choice because as a women we are the only ones who have a right with what to do with our body. I thank Igli for writing this piece with me as I think it would teach our fellow classmates about the topic and I enjoyed writing this with him because he was able to add humor into a serious topic which is very much needed.