Well I have to say, that I agree with previous blogs that I struggle to come up with ideas for my stories. It really resonated with me though, what Richard Rubin said about how all writing is re-writing. That really got me thinking, and now I do not feel as guilty per se that I feel like all of my ideas are so pregenerated and, I guess in a sense, I think they are kind of lame. For my second story, I basically created this hybrid story of two dramatic storylines that were on the sheet that we were given for the assignment, and took off from there. For some reason though, I feel rather uncomfortable writing about some of these ideas I have. It was interesting to hear that Richard Rubin thinks that fiction writing is easier than non fiction: for me, I think that non fiction is easier, but that is probably because I am not as creative of a thinker. To me,it is easier to write about my own life, my own experiences, and to make the smallest situation into an analysis and expansion of something bigger. It is more challenging for me to try and create something or some sort of story: I can never think of all the details,and it just always seems to be so stagnant and cliche. I feel like my own life can't really be cliche, because it's my life. And, I cannot make the wrong decisions or choices in the plot, because I have no choices: it's what actually happened. So, I am struggling in this class to come up with creative, legitimate plots. It seems like the majority of the class has these crazy stories that end with such twists and I just feel very plain jane vanilla. But, I guess it is just the kind of thing where some people are just naturally stronger at this type of writing. Regardless, it is still frustrating to me as I sit and try to write each story.