Greetings, Earthlings!
I remember creating the first story like it was only yesterday... Wait a minute, it was four days ago. Anyway, I started out with a single fragment of an idea: my main character is a robot. As I continued to brainstorm, my thought process went something like this: Robot... A robot that doesn't know she's a robot... Her memories were replaced with fake ones... Once she remembers her past, she gets reactivated, changing back into a robot... AND DESTROYS THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
It was really fun creating a whole new world with strange characters and a BAM-IN-YO-FACE plot twist. I never really knew I could pull something off like that but apparently I can. That makes me happy! :)
So my strategy all along was to plan characters and exciting details first. I wasn't too sure about how to start my short story, as I was really bad at thinking of how to start my introductory paragraph. But then Mr. Kelly came to the rescue and told us to write FOUR DIFFERENT BEGINNINGS, EACH WITH A DIFFERENT STYLE! It was SO helpful and I really got into one of them, thus my beginning was born.
After that, I just wrote on the fly, keeping in mind where I want to end up, what mood I want to set and how to lull my readers into a sense of calm.
And you did indeed lull us into a sense of calm on sharing day, feeling very much along for a nice, easy-going trip through your first story. And then the twist. Suddenly we're all in the grip of an emotional reaction to your story! Way to manipulate the reader's experience as we'd hoped to do! It's a bit ironic that the creator of such a dark twist in her story is such a positive supporter of peers, no? Really glad the four story starts was helpful (sometimes this activity has been a tough sell). Glad the process is clicking with you. Indeed, you could pull off the plot twist. So, what else do you "not really know" if you can make work with your writing? Will it surprise us next Saturday? I'm not at all certain what "Supah-Fly" means. But, since I've wanted to fly (not in a plane, but actually fly) for quite some time, I'm feeling good about it.
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