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The Story Behind the Story
Since this week, we focused on our creative writing assignment; I thought it would be fun to do this week’s creative writing on what inspired my creative writing piece. For the longest time, I have been enamored by love stories! I watch Hallmark movies and read romance novels obsessively. My parents have an adorable love story. They were high school sweethearts who broke up in college and got back together after going to a wedding together; then, my dad showed up a few days after on my mom’s doorstep with yellow roses to confess his love. Also, my mother was an actress who taught me Shakespeare’s romances from a young…
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Last Love
Eleanor sat up in her bed. “Would you like more tea?” one of her maids asked. “No.” The word barely audible against her faint breath. “I want to write,” she mumbled, “get me my quill.” The maids rushed to her side with quill and parchment, fear in their eyes. They knew that Eleanor was in pain and that writing would only cause her more, but they would not deny the frail young women her wish. When she was healthy, Eleanor would write daily to her friend Fredrick. She would wait by the window for the postman to see if Frederick had written back yet, and twirl around in delight when…
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Solving my problems with Mind Mapping
One of the problems I constantly run into when doing assignments is that I feel like I have no good ideas. I end up staring at a blank google doc for over an hour just trying to come up with the perfect idea that is well thought-out and has significant proof. Even once I do have an idea, I have to worry about the possibility of me changing plans halfway through a paper. I once tried just making a bulleted list of all my ideas before I started and then just free-write, but that ended horribly with me having enough ideas for a book and the most hectic free writing…
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How To Tell A Story
I love literature! In my free time, when not onstage, you can often find me with a book in my hand or working on a novel that has been one of my passion projects for years. I have always known epistolary format existed, but I hadn’t had much experience with it until this week. I didn’t realize how much more I enjoyed reading in this format than I expected. Most of the books I read are romance novels, and my favorite author: Lauren Asher, always has both characters in the relationship narrator the book so you can understand what they are both feelings. Similar to the way the epistolary novels do…
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Everyone Needs Love
Although I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this week due to my hopeless romantic nature, the one thing that has stuck with me was the Ted Talk: Love Letters to Strangers. As someone who sends bi-weekly love letters to her boyfriend, I have always viewed love letters as very personal things that should just be shared between the people in the relationship. Even though my parents are known as the PDA couple of my friend group, I have yet to see the letters they wrote through college despite hearing numerous stories about them. It was like a secret that just the two of them shared, and although I knew my parents…
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The Anne Frank Dilemma
Due to letters, we have found a way to preserve people and their lives. Millions of letters were sent between families during WWII, and over time collections of them have been formed, both personal and private, that have an ornate effect on people. They expand both people’s knowledge of what it was like to be in the war, sparking a historical interest. Ones in museums and online collections have further shaped opinions on the war, allowing people to feel connected with the past. There is no question about the vitality of the letters, but when reading such personal letters feels unethical, why does one continue? The Dear Bessie letters raise…
