Fiction Writing; Spring 2016

Friday, May 20, 2016

"Bitter Sweet" Goodbye...?

     This class was the "surprise class" of this semester that I didn't know that I needed to graduate and had no idea I would be able to handle and enjoy as well.

     I can NOT believe how much reading and writing was accomplished...
I don't know how you (Professor Talbird feel about us) or others in the class feel about themselves but I can say that I exceeded my own expectations by not only keeping pace with the courses' workload but also liking it!!!... except for that one story..."The Fugue"... Maybe I will give it another chance over the Summer (after the Summer Session in June).

To my fellow classmates and Professor Talbird,

     Thank you for a Great Class and a Great Semester!
Good Luck on Finals, Have a Great Summer!
Best Wishes to you all in your Future Endeavors!!!

Sincerely Yours,
Charles

PS I will be "graduating" in June but not going to Graduation as I booked a Last Minute Cruise :-)
That's a prophecy fulfilled as I have been writing about cruises all semester, LOL. "I'll be back" just in time for Summer Session I and will be taking Acting I (AM) and Intro to Social Work (PM) to finish up my Associates Degree "officially" June 30, 2016. The "plan" is to transfer to Queens College... more needs to be worked out as far as "majors" or careers are concerned...
If you keep in touch, I will keep you posted...

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Story and film

I mentioned that I liked the last class. But I also liked the class before the last one. When I was following up through the story while it was being read I didn't quite get the whole story. I felt like it was cut into sections like chapters. I don't know if I heard wrong or if that's how it was kind of written. But when I heard so many I injuries going on including the graveyard and the baby rabbits that were killed and just the language of the characters made me sound that the story was trying to give a dark perspective. Their conversations sounded irregular and I asked myself where was the author going with this. But when I saw the film and everything was played out, I had exactly no idea that all of that was being described in the story. Yes the words were being said exactly like the one in the text but the characters were humorous and not gothic like, like the one in the story.

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Last class

I thought that the last class was great. We all got to eat great food and great snacks. I listened to everyone's stories. There were some that were quite long that I lost myself in the process and I would try to get myself back up again to listen. All stories I heard were really great and creative. There was one about some guy that worked in some kind of job which I forgot what it was about but I found it quite funny because of the artist's saying he was referring about. I pretty much remembered all the really long stories. Not word for word obviously but because they were so long. I also like the mermaid story that one made me laugh when all of sudden she says that they're Mexican. Comes up with a Hispanic name. It was unexpected and funny. I also liked the story about the Angel. The way how erverything was being described was unbelievable and so touchy, and artistic in a way. But I thought everyone did good with their stories and participation. Not one did bad.

Last Post on Blogger... Maybe.

I am actually kind of sad that we won't be seeing each other Tuesday nights anymore. I honestly did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I was kind of nervous the first few days when I saw how well a few people wrote. But we all did learn how to improve our writing. Some definitely gotten really better.

During our last class readings, it was interesting to see how many people wrote about a similar topic or issue. I definitely thought it was nice to read our own writings.

As for the summer; well I'll probably just pick up an extra summer job and try to work on my paintings. I am looking forward to reading a few books that my classmates had told me about. Next semester is going to be my last at QCC. So i'm pretty excited.

Other than that I wish everyone well and good luck for your finals!

Lets stay in touch!

Maybe we shall revisit this blog if it's still around. :)

Thanks professor for everything!

Reflection

This was one of my most memorable classes till date. Despite the tremendous amount of writing that was required, it has helped us to create stories, get feedback from our classmates and explore our writing skills. Last night's class was bitter sweet. Having a farewell party was wonderful. Thank you Professor. Congrats to everyone that read last evening, I know that we all feel delighted to share what we wrote for others to hear.

The reading started off inspiring with the clip that Abraham Spiegel played for us.

Followed by one of Christian McKinzie’s story, I loved the picture he painted for us, the descriptions were excellent. His story was suspenseful. I personally liked how he wrote the story and the conversation between the characters; Quinn and the doctor. It was really cool for him to also add that Quinn got upset with the doctor as if he wanted to blame someone, it added good real content to the story. I had a conversation once with Daphne and I knew that she took great pride in perfecting her stories. She always explores and go beyond the simple expectations and tap into challenging twists and turns, sure enough she presented us with a story that had two different point of views. Her description of physical abuse seemed professional as if she was at the level of writing for a TV series. Ruth stories are always impeccable as well. Cristian Ramirez’s writing skills reminded me of stories in BASS.

I liked the books we read, we started off light and then got to the long stories. The “rawness” of the words in the stories gave us the liberty to say what we wanted in ours. I am not sure what book I will be reading this summer, but it might be The Law of Attraction after being reminded of how great the book is in Ingrid’s story.

Thank you classmates and most of all Professor for making us brighter.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

My thought on the class

Honestly I got a lot more out of the class then I thought I would. I had a great time sharing stories with out her class mates. The project was an amazing idea! I plan on going back to the KGB bar very soon. I got o see a creative side of myself that rarely gets exposed. I feel like I have a little bit more courage to share my ideas in an open forms.

Over I ajourd the class and would recommend it to anyone interested in opening your mind.