Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Blog #2- Writing Exercises: Goals


  The goals I have for this semester are to better my writing and through that, myself. I think that when someone writes they learn more about themselves, if they are being truly expressive in their writing. I plan to work on my short stories more, I haven’t visited them in a while and I want to try to develop some of my short stories into full novels. I love fantasy and writing about fantasy but also making it dark and gripping, drawing the reader in and usually leave them hanging. I love the starter stories from bird by bird and The Pocket Muse they are really inspiring for short story ideas. The Fantasy genre really grabs me too, the dark, horror and grit riddled side to fantasy though. Glenn Cook  is my, sort of role model author. His books and his short stories are all so deep and tug at ones heart strings for all of the tragic characters. There is also no Black and White to the characters, no total hero’s and no absolute villains. “good guys” are sometimes not so good and “bad guys” can be good. Morals are present but not all good morals and not all bad morals. That’s generally how people are. I really hope someday that I will be able to make one of my shorter stories into a novel that would be close to Glenn Cooks caliber of writing. I think the biggest goal I have for this class is my novel writing.

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