Writing Journal

My new piece is about Gab and i choose to go back i guess to fill in the gaps of earlier pieces. I wanted to produce some thing that showed more of the bond that i wish Gab and Mills to have. I also noticed that i have to make a couple chapter doing this to make their friendship more authentic, along with other characters. In my new piece I wanted to show the growth of their friendship and the struggle they have telling eachother secrets as close friends. I'm still revising this and plan on adding more deatils to the settings. Like his bedroom and their work place. I believe that adding these types of chapters will pull my story together.

Reading Journal

In the writing guide Bird by Bird i read the chapter that is dedicated to set design. In it it decribes the steps you can take to produce good setting for you characters. She said that it's a good to ask others about a what a room looks like for a supsicfic person if you can't think of one on your own. I think I will try her advice, but i'm not sure if i really how it will work out. She describes how a good setting can bring the background story to life.
I aslo have been reading short stories for my Lit class. The most recent stroy that I read  is "Where are we going, Where have you been?" by Joyce Carol. This story was very wierd. It takes place in the 70's during the summer time and this teenage girl Connie is enjoying her summer sneaking around with her friends. They go out at night to a local resturaunt where older teens hang out. Connie feels amazing when she out with her friends especially when guys give her the attention she wants. At the end of the night her dad come to pick her up from the mall thinking that she spent the whole night at the movies, and as a result she doesn't get in trouble. While out with her friends she see a strange guy in the car who catches her attention. This mysterious guy turns back up at her house when her parents are gone to a barbaque. He parks his car in her drive way and calls for her to take a ride with him. While at her porch door she is talking to the boy insisting that she doesnt know him, but he won't leave. He say's his name is Arnold Friend, and that he just want her to go with him. He tell her that he wants to love her and she should let him, but she doesn't come out the door. When they talk back and forth Connie relizes that things about a him seem very odd and unnatural. I come to the realization that he may not be a real person but some thing else. I think Arnold is a facade of all she wanted in a guy, but she fears him because it's too much mixed up in one.

Reading Log

As i took my break i didn't do too much reading, but last night i read  couple of chapter of my Writer's Guide book. The chapter i felt most helpful is a chapter about how to make your settings more visual a special. I like the way the make your setting seem like pictures. So i decide that i will attempt to be more descriptive in my settings so that they grasp my readers a lot better and it seem more vivid.

Writing Log

For the past week i have been concentrating on how i want my story to end. I don't know why but that's been my main though lately. I really want it to end in a realistic way and not in a cheesy fairy tale way. I've written down a couple of ideas, but the rest are just thought that are floating in my head. In my Gab Character chapter i have revised it. In that particular chapter he is doing drugs at Sarah's house( Karen's Old Best friend). With this chapter i want to explain the type of relationship that He have with her, and how unhealthy it is.and how gab is leaning towards changing their connection so he can concentrate on gaining a close relationship with Mills. But he has doubt about if that will happen.

Reading Log

Blindness is a very slow moving story, but what's going on his so interesting. I love the way the author writes for some reason, his choice of words seem to have deeper meaning and they linger in my head. I would love to have that skill.
So far in the book the character are still held in the asylum, but their number has multiplied because the blindness has spread through out the city. Since their number have grown the old internees have developed skills to get by living there. They are attempting to work together realizing its all up to them on how they survive, besides a hand full who don't realized it yet. And now the internees who still possess their sight, but are believed to be exposed to the blindness are one by one going blind. Which is causing hysteria in their ward. As the go bind the make their way to the other ward with the blind. One character i believe the first to go blind for that ward was a man. When he could no longer see he, he did not cry out for help or panic. In the book he is referred to as the man with the eye patch and i like him because he just accepted his fate.

Writing Blog

During my writing process i have finished my Karen piece FINALLY! It was just taking me a while to find a place to end it and a good place so that i can bring it back up in my story later on. When it comes to new pieces i haven't made another one. It's just taking me a while to think about how i want the chapter, but i do have some ideas. I was thinking about devoting a chapter to Lisa again, i might involve her finding out about Mills tattoo or either it can be James. Mills just might tell James that she got the tattoo and he might just give her some advice or let her in on his childhood more so James seems like a real and personal character. James and Lisa may have some conflict with how to deal with Mills choice.

Writting Blog

I've written three pieces so far, but they are not completely done yet. I still have to finish two of the pieces and change some stuff around in one. I have continued the chapter with Karen visiting her grandmother and thought it would be good to show a talent you would never expect from Karen. The piece that's nearly done is the one where Mills my main character gets a tattoo with Gab to keep her company. With this chapter i wanted some conflict with the fact that Gab is dealing and using prescribed drugs. I'm still debating on how i want Lisa and James her guardians should find out about her new tattoo and how they will react. I also think that i should reveal Mills may react to following the rules she never had to follow before coming to live with them.

Reading Journal

The novel Blindeness is a fictional story about a epidimic that is spreading through this town. The Blindness that these people are experiancing is very different from the typical kind. Instead of seeing black darkness these victims see a bright white. With the government fully alarmed they start gahtering people who have either gone blind or were exposed to the unkown virus. Being placed in an abandoned asylum the infected must in alot of ways take care of each other. To me it seems if they seperate themselves they will not beableto survive on there on during their time in this asylum. This story great and draws me in completely even though its been going slow so far. I also find the the Saramago wrote this stroy is very different. Dialoge is mixed all together with no quotation marks or indentions. I was told that it gives the reader a blind feeling. I relly like that  style. IT would be a good way to help me improve my dialoge.

Writing Log

For a while i've been working on developing Karen's character by introducing her family members and how she interacts with.  I also wanted to show some changes in her, that is how he decided to handle the relationship with her father and the friend she lost because of him. I also wanted to show her father acts when it comes to being around other people. I'm a little stuck on finishing that portion so i'm starting a new chapter with Gab. For the longest i wanted to make a conflict that would be big enough to affect all my characters and i think i found some thing that would do just that. I begin it with Gab and i'm thinking of a way to build off of that so that it can spread to the other characters. 

Reading Log

For the pass couple of weeks i've been reading the writing fiction guide and its helped me to develop my  characters  a lot better. I feel like the advice she gives her readers are easy to follow and so it easy for me to produce characters that seem real.  I've also been taking time to read my mystery novel. From this book i've learned how to give my story a certain speed. Since it's a mystery the novel moves in a some what slower speed. So that i can gather all the clues and evidence clearly, i'm guessing.

Writing Journal

The Process for continuing my story has been a little difficult, but once i got advice on what to do my flow of writing has been much smoother. What i've began to do is writing sections or chapters for the story in no particular order. This helped me create conflict because before i started doing this i was very stuck on how to get my story to progress. With the new chapters i will write around it making it all connect. the chapters and events jumping from one character from the next it gives me more to write about. For instance i've almost finished three pieces that revolves around a party that Mills, Karen and Gabriel go to. At the party a number of events take place causing all three characters to come together at some point, this also gave me a chance introduce a character that did not play a special role( Karen's old Best Friend). I used this to time to show more parts to Karen and Gabriel.
The next pieces that i am near to completing is where i try to show where the relationship stands between Mills and James( Her aunt's Husband).I'm also considering having James personal prospective on things because i feel like i haven't let his character grow in to his own person. I think it would be good to show his personal prospective on the events that take place in his home, maybe giving him a secret of his own.

Reading Journal

I've been reading Absolute Fear, but it's been hard keeping a steady pace in the book because i've been a little busy. When i do get free time the mystery is slowly unfolding. The book is similar to what im trying to write because there are shifting narrators. I enjoy the way the author makes chapters leaving me wanting to know what going to happen next and whats the big mystery about. I think i might try this technique since my story revolves around my characters secrets .