Fiction's Week Three Post

My new post is more about the readings that I found most interesting in our fiction readings. The first reading that I enjoyed was When It Rains It Rains A River by Peter Markus from the book The Singing Fish. The second reading that I saw as enjoyable as well as educating is Polaroids by Lamont. Both stories gave me new insight on how writing a fiction story should be done correctly and creatively. Lamont however, was more of an instruction manual for how to go through each step of writing when it comes to fiction while the exert from The Singing Fish shows the development and picture that Lamont was speaking of in a working piece of literature. I'll begin with explaining Polaroids by Lamont.

In Polaroids the text follows the process that should be taken by writers to produce an good and solid depiction of fiction writing. In the process he explains how the process is resemblance of a polaroid picture by the way it is developed by saying "Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop, You can't-- and, in fact, you're not supposed to-- know exactly what the picture is going to look like until it has finished developing." In this manual by Lamont he breaks down the writing picture into every part that should be incorporated in the finish picture by starting with character. He speaks about although you will like and dislike some of your characters, they will most likely be some variation of yourself. Then he goes into the plot of the story by saying that " Your plot will fall into place as, one day at a time, you listen to your characters carefully, and watch them move around doing and saying things and bumping into each other."At the end he introduces the idea of dialogue between characters to finish the development of fiction writing. In this part he explains how the characters will lead a writer to what they would say and the the writer must get the voice right on their own.

In When It Rains It Rains A River  the process is shown very creatively as the story progresses. First you believe that the story is about two brothers that are human but as story goes along the idea of what kind of brothers they are lingers. You think they're not human because in the story one part goes " And then I raised back that hammer. I drove that rusty nail right through Brother's hand." I know that I have never seen brothers play as rough as that especially when later it says that the brother wasn't shouting in pain. The fact the writer didn't just come out and say that they weren't human is what helped to draw the readers attention as while let the reader watch the development of the story. These are the things that I will take into much consideration as I continue to write fiction stories.