The words I wrote no longer were just words on a paper, they were a story. A story that later on became the only thing that occupied the empty space in my mind, it became a part of me. Intellect is filled with the sweat of hard endless writing sessions and the heart of my passion to write stories like it. This piece of art is one of my most prized possession and the process was not an easy journey.
The very beginning of this project looked like multiple ideas brainstormed from my group and I. After deciding what our main idea was going to be about, I had to create the chunks of the story and I did this using storyboard note cards. The note cards that had my overall scenes that made up the story were then filled in by gaps with of small details. Writing the first draft was the most difficult part because it was extremely long, which I anticipated but still was not prepared for. Once it was complete I then immediately got critique because a story is not perfect until a second pair of eyes has seen it. I got many people to help with this long process of editing my story to the best it could be and in return I did the same for them. A lot of the editing was cutting the fat and fixing some of the grammatical errors. The last part my story process was put in with the preface and illustrations from the other members in my group. I had a lot of challenges throughout the project and it all began with the story. I already had an idea from weeks previously and just had to convince the rest of my group to be on the same page. That didn't happen. We argued a lot about what our story was going to be and having being set to an idea I stuck to it throughout the days of arguments. In the end we came to a agreement about a idea, but something at the end was really how to comprise. I learned that in order to receive something in the future I must first sacrifice something in the present. It was difficult at first, but I'm so glad we all came to an idea that everyone liked. After deciding this, I was a little stuck on how I was going to start the story. Luckily, we had a publisher came and gave us critique throughout the process of writing the stories. She told me that having action told through dialogue would be a better approach than doing an "info dump", so I started out with the main character doing an action but telling what she was doing. This really helped me throughout the story because it kept me from describing too much about different scenes. I learned many things, from different writing techniques to learning to improve weaknesses about myself. This project taught me a lot about overcoming challenges that really affected the project and just overall a reminder of how much I love to write. This story is one of my best writing pieces I have every done and I am very proud of the finished product.
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Brenna
1/9/2018 01:53:18 pm
I love how you talked about the process as well as the outcome.
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Anna
1/9/2018 01:55:47 pm
The beginning of this blog was extremely poetic and very well written, but I wish you had kept that theme throughout the post.
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bri
1/9/2018 02:07:37 pm
Hey Kaya,
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Marley
1/10/2018 01:52:38 pm
I love how you put it all together in such a creative way instead of a straightforward boring way you added a lot of detail and description GOODJOB!!
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