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When reading a work of fiction, there is an accompanying film projected onto a metaphorical screen inside your mind. You can “see” the characters enjoying a Sunday picnic in the park, you can “hear” the boy yell to his mother from the top of the staircase, you might even be able to “smell” the cherryContinue reading “Cinema of the Mind Reflection”

We like cruises. We- meaning my brother, my mother, my father, and I – go on them every chance we get. We took my grandmother once, she didn’t like it. Said she appreciated getting to see more of the world, but didn’t like the boat. She said it moved too much. I guess she meantContinue reading “Modeled after Fiesta, 1980”

The plot of the story encompasses the action that occurs during the “present” or the “right now” of that story. However, the plot does not have to be chronological. The plot could be a minute, a day, or a year in the life of a character but could be used to reveal pieces of theContinue reading “Plot, As I Understand It”

Creative Non-Fiction has a complicated relationship with truth. While non-fiction must inherently be true, putting any event on paper alters it in some way. Additionally, in an attempt to enhance the creativity of the piece, we must think deeply about the event to extract details. While these details may seem accurate to us, they mayContinue reading “Fact and Truth in CNF”

My grandmother gave me a painting of a girl. The girl is beautiful, painted in every color of the rainbow with her hair dripping down her back onto the shoulders of her flowy summer dress. She is holding an umbrella and dancing in the puddles of the rainbow rain. My grandmother said that girl remindedContinue reading “Reflection Exercise 2/17/20”

Vienna, June 2019. Roughly 1:30 am. I need to get to sleep. In 3 and a half hours they will come knock on the doors and pull all fifty of us out of bed to make our flight back to the United States. But, I don’t want to go home. Back to the normal, everydayContinue reading “Piece modeled after “Sleepless in Any City””

It was unseasonably cold for May, even for New York City. My family and I were enjoying the brief respite from the already repressive heat of an Arkansas summer. As we exited the hotel, we were loaded down with rain jackets, ponchos, and umbrellas. We had booked a double-decker bus tour to Little Italy andContinue reading “It Really Happened”

Landscape: -In the Louisiana bayou -murky oxbow lake off the Mississippi River -General Grant hid his ships there during the Civil War -cypress trees/knees with Spanish moss hanging from them -dock that’s been added on to as the family has grown and the lake has receded -mosquitoes that will carry you away Ambiance: -spooky -ruralContinue reading “In Class Exercise: Setting”