This week was writing week, and writing is my jam. This week was also a hard week for me with my other classes, work, and trying to get my anxiety under control, so this was a good week to be something Iām already familiar with. My writing wasnāt anything groundbreaking this week, I donāt think. It wasnāt some masterpiece, it wasnāt dripping with creativity. Still, I think I did fairly well given the circumstances. āStressed Outā was definitely a good release, more for me than for any audience. āCaptain Never-Itchyā was a parody poking fun at some of my favorite tropes of one of my favorite ways to tell stories, but it wasnāt anything unique that no one else could have come up with, you know? āIām Just So Tiredā was way overdramatic. I meant it to be silly, poking fun at the dramatic āwoe is meā type monologues you see in theater every so often, but I donāt know how well that came across in the piece itself, and it may seem more like I was serious. (If I was serious, it was not so good. But I wasnāt. It was a joke. I know it was cliche.) āLove, Hookā was a diary entry by Captain Hook. It was also fairly silly, painting Captain Hook as the good guy. I could have/would have/should have written something on the more serious side, but I didnāt. Itās not what I was feeling or needed this week. I found it was more difficult to bring in Bob Ross and The Joy of Painting, this week, but I explained how I did in my write-up post. I also wrote an analysis of the story of The Marinerās Revenge Song. I love the song and the tragic story it tells. I feel like itās a good example of telling a story from the point of view of a bad character who believes theyāre justified in their actions, believes theyāre doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, that sort of thing. I struggle to write those sorts of characters because I always either make them justified in their actions or make them so evil itās hard to believe they donāt realize how bad their actions are. There was also the outline for the long-form story. In the GroupMe chat with other students in the class, it seemed to throw people for a loop. I just used a story Iāve been meaning to do something with for a while, so I just wrote down what Iāve been formulating in my head. Since what I have is individual scenes rather than a full plot, outlining really helped me put it together in a way that made sense and connect it to the song that shares a name with the setting and the story. I did four daily creates this week. I felt like some of them were harder because I felt like I needed things (like clothes from half a century ago) that I didnāt have access to in my dorm room, but I did my best with the resources I had. Finally, I wasnāt able to comment as much as I could last week, but I still did here, here, and here. I clicked on things from the class website that had titles that caught my eye, not for any particular reason about the work itself. Iām realizing that the titles matter more than Iāve been giving them credit for, so Iāll have to put more effort into my future titles.
