This week we
again shifted focus from Bird by Bird, back to Wreckage of Reason.
While I enjoy reading Bird by Bird more
than Wreckage of Reason, mainly because you are learning how to write from a
published author, I always tend to have fun reading Wreckage of Reason because
how different some of the stories are.
Reading all these different short stories, that have so many different
writing styles, and different forms of writing, really helps give me some ideas
for when I hit a writer’s block. Some of
the stories in this book are so bazaar and different that I would have never
even thought to have wrote it that way.
It makes me wonder how there authors come up with these weird formats
and writing styles. I really enjoyed
reading what was assigned this week.
One of the eight short stories that
we read that I really enjoyed was on page 191, and is called, The Woman, by: Nina Shope. I really didn’t overly enjoy this piece of
writing in terms of the content but I thought it was very interesting in how it
was written. The grammar was very
strange because sometimes it was right and sometimes it was wrong. Sometimes there are periods at the end of
sentences and sometimes they are placed at the end of fragments. She used the word “we” at the beginning of
most of the sentences. The entire story
is just the author, Nina, writing about things that she did with this “woman”. She wrote about the time they spend together,
and about how she felt about her. It is
like she is documenting her time with this woman and how she made her feel. I personally didn’t like the style that she
wrote this in because it is far to centered around one person. I also thought that it got a little boring
because of how repetitive she was when using the word “we. It was definitely a funny read, and a different
perspective on writing.
The next story that I found
interesting was called, A You War Story. It is written by Summer Brenner and is
located on page 258. The first thing
that I liked about this story was how short it was. It got right to the point and told how the
author was feeling. She states right away
that her lover just went away, and started to write about him. This turns into a form of a love letter or
sob letter about the person that left her.
Also it could be interpreted as someone just complaining about how they
were treated by their significant other.
It seems like she was upset about her lover leaving her and so she
decided, as a form of stress relief, to just write down all the things that are
going through your head at that moment.
She also talked about all the great times that they had together over
time and how he left her because he got bored with her. She states, “But things can only please a
person for so long”, I guess her time just ran up and it was her time to
go.
Finally the last short story that I
really wanted to talk about was Ten Birds.
This is located on page 277, and was
written by Karen Brennan. This was
another story that attracted me because of how different it was. The story wasn’t written in your typical
story form, instead it was written in sections that were numbered all the way
from one to ten, instead of written in your typical paragraph format. It isn’t the way that I would have written a
story but that’s what makes what we read this week so much fun, it really is so
different from your typical writing format.
The reading from this week along with the first half of Wreckage of
Reason from three weeks ago has really taught me a lot about writing how I want
to and how to be creative when picking your format to write in.
great responses here... well done.
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