Here I explain an introduction to my Narrative Project Assignment and links to blog posts that show my process in writing and how I got to where I am now. Recently, we have been working on different forms of scene writing every week for our blog assignments. This is eventually to help us and give us practice towards our first formal project. I began practicing on composing a scene in my third blog post titled composing a present scene. We read What is Creative Nonfiction? by Lee Gutkind and it gave me guidelines while writing my first scene. I wrote about my stressful day while trying to remember to use description and action. In my fourth post titled composing action into scene, we read Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff to really get used to focusing on the action aspects on writing a scene. In the other post, I would write using present tense but in my fifth blog post called composing a past scene, I practiced using past tense. For the following post, composing a past scene: part two, we read The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Stetson. After reading that piece, rewrote the outcome of the story to get used to writing in other writers perspectives. By using what I learned from these blog posts, I found the topic I wanted to write my Narrative Project on. To continue on my writing journey, in blog post seven, found poem of my past scene, I used this tactic of going through my paper and creating another piece of writing with it by selecting random words or phases. This exercise made it clear to me whether I was using enough descriptive language or not. The last step I took towards making my narrative project was working on a second draft. The second draft consisted of writing in third person, present tense and also I used counterfactuals to change the ending into a sort of "what if" way. You can find my reflection on how I felt about writing in this new way in my vlog, titled narrative project rewrite: exploring counterfactuals. In draft one, it is solely based off of an event that took a tole on me in the moment of time. In draft two, I practiced more with using counterfactuals and changed the decision I made in draft one to have a completely different outcome. Draft three is a revision of draft two and is there to fix any grammatical errors and thinks my professor believed would improve my writing.
Here I will provide drafts of my narrative project: