The Writer’s Reflection

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Skills Showcased

This piece is critical thinking skills. It shows this by using things I’ve taken from my Creative Writing major to reflect on myself. The piece also showcases my knowledge of authors. 

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Fiction is the imagination put into reality. It can be faithful can tell truths of the real world or it can make realities come true. Characters can be made with real or make-up. It can be in the past, present, or future. However, it up for interpretation of what is seen or unseen. This is why I love fiction. Fiction has so many possibilities. You can do whatever you want. If you want to send your characters to space, then you can send them to space. If you want to create a whole New World, then you can create a whole new world. That’s why I took the Fiction Workshop class. I want to shape my own world and a new existence. In this class, I wanted to make something new something; something that has never seen before. However, I had to learn how to make my work better, how to make it stand out from the crowd, how to develop my characters build my structure, and help my world become whole.

In Fiction Workshop, I had to read multiple books with different writers. She by Michelle Latiolais, Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin, What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell, and Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. Two of the four writers influence my writing throughout the course. Michelle Latiolais’ attention to details and Kazuo Ishiguro’s characters being woven into the plot and story. Michelle Latiolais is a Professor of English at the University of California at Irvine, where she co-directs the Programs in Writing. Her book, She tells the story of a young girl running away from home and she finds herself in the middle Los Angeles. Her story and other people unravel as the story progress. Michelle Latiolais’ attention to detail gives her story a clear picture of the work she trying to create. Michelle Latiolais add detail to everyday objects and give them a story. These plot details help add to the story. After talking to Mrs. Latiolais during a class skype video, I reinforced that detail is important to a story. Now in my stories, I give details to objects that are important to the characters. By doing this I add to their story. Although, Kazuo Ishiguro also did this, but in another way.
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Nobel Prize-winning novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. Ishiguro is considered one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world. Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Remains of the Day is a book that taught about weaving characters in a story. Set in post-World War II England, Stevens; a butler at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, goes on a country drive. He embarks on a journey through his past to reassure himself that he has served humanity to its fullest by working with Lord Darlington. However, he starts having doubts about the nature of his own life. Ishiguro’s characters are connected to each other. No one in the story is unconnected from the other. They all have a story with one another. Ishiguro taught me that characters who don’t connect should not be a part of the story. Now, I try to make characters who connect with each other and the story.
I learned a lot from my Creative Writing major. In the work that I’m presenting in this portfolio reflects that. From critiques I gathered in class and stories that I’ve read, I created stories that make you think about details and characters that shape our work. These works reflect what I have learned and that is why they are the best.