Week 7/8

Well, not a whole lot has really been going on.  I haven't really touched my short story lately because of everything else that I need to work on in order to graduation.  Frustration. Definitely.  Class has been going the same as usual.  Except I wish people would submit what they want workshopped for class a few days in advance like they're supposed to.  I like to do all my homework during the day and have the night to just unwind from classes and school work but when people neglect to e-mail us their stuff until the night before class it's pretty obnoxious.  Ok, I'll stop ranting.

I'm still working on developing Jinny for my story.  I think she's going to be an antiques dealer/appraiser.  And I want the audience to be able to pick up on the fact that she is emotionally unstable (because of the divorce) and she's confused by her feelings for Camille and isn't sure on how to act on them.  She isn't sure if she's gay, bisexual, or just emotionally confused over the divorce.  I really want my story to span the entire time Camille is pregnant and also a month or so after she gives birth.  I planned on having Camille move in with Jinny but I don't know if that would be considered too rushed because the page maximum has been changed to 20 pages where at the beginning of the semester the story had to have a 20 page minimum.  So I just don't know right now.


That's really all I have going on for now,
Liz

Week 6/7

Egad, I just realized I hadn't written an entry for last week!  I was busy with preparing for midterms that it completely slipped my minds!  Whoops!  Anyway, not much went on last week, we only had class on Tuesday and we just workshopped.  As far as my story is headed right now I have multiple scenes written up and I'm reaching that point where I have to decide what to keep and what to pitch.  The ending is still in a fog; I have an idea but I'm not sure if I want to go through with it.  I guess we'll see.  I'm working on my character development since that seems to be probably my weakest category.  This new 20 page maximum has put a real damper on my story; I have had to reevaluate my characters and plot and it's been a real struggle. But I think I might be making some progress.

THIS week we workshopped as usual in class and unfortunately my story has been on the back burner due to my midterms.  This doesn't mean I haven't been thinking about my story.  I think about it all the time: I'll have constant conversations in my head between my characters.  Or I will think of possible scenes and the like.  This makes it difficult for me to concentrate in some of my classes because I'll doze off, thinking about my story, and forget what's going on in class, ha ha!

Well, that's about all for now!
Liz