Oh, the Tension!

I don’t know about anyone else, but I found writing the story for this week’s assignment very, very difficult. I’m not totally sure why, but I am not really totally happy with the end result. I have always had a hard time writing short stories; I think that it is because I have a hard time thinking in short story form. The stories that come to me are always of a rather epic nature, tales that would not lend themselves well to short story form. Likewise, those few short stories that I have been able to create are always on the longer end of the spectrum. I am not sure if my story for this week was giving me so much trouble because it, perhaps, is not well suited to short story form? Or, at least, not as short a story as I made it? I really don’t think I hit the tension on my piece. Argh, I don’t know….

In other words, I really have to agree with most everyone else; meeting Richard Rubin was pretty awesome. I know that several other people have mentioned it, but I think that the most interesting part of the discussion was the part about life experiences. That is something that has always stopped me writing in the past: the idea that I don’t have enough knowledge or experience with something to write about it. Though I defiantly think that having understanding of, and information about, something is important to good writing, I also think that I need to start putting more faith in my own imagination.