It's the bane of the world. What ever happened to the days where I came up with these great ideas while dreaming or while just zoning out? I mean, I haven't had a dream where I was in one of my stories for a while. And those dreams were so amazing! To write like when one has a dream. Characters that act so natural and plot-turns I would kill for now.......Ah. To sleep, perchance to dream. (Ahhh! The Shakespeare Curse still lives!)
Anyway, what led to this, is my homework assignment. As the chapter on poverty and education ends, the assignment (that I chose out of the many ideas he gave) was to write a story.
Write a story in first or second person that answers the three poverty questions listed above (what causes, what looks/feels like, how to solve [I kid you not, this is my teachers grammar on assignment]). 12pt, NTR, double-spaced, 2-4 pages. Include characters, setting, plot, solution.
Now I like starting stories. It's the end that kills ya. And the constraint of 4 pages! And to work with the instructions. You can't make a good story with all that listed and only have 4 pages. I've already cheated with the margins and with the double spacing (The intro is only 1.15 spaced) so I can't really do much else. I'm less than a paragraph from the end of page four. How in the hell am I supposed to fit it? It's harder than the 2000 word limit I had with the writing contest. Mostly because you have to answer the questions. You try doing that seamlessly in first-bloody-person. I feel like the teachers are out to just annoy me so much. I don't like him much either. His worksheets that he gives us really suck and his grammar is worse than a kindergartners.
Mehh~ I love this story and how I've done it in barely two pages (remember, double spaced). Why double spaced? It's completely useless. It's a waste of paper. Double-spaced. Pah! No real writer uses double-spaced (unless they are writing an essay they really hate, like in AP Euro).
I give up at it for now. Ciao, Ja matta, you know the drill.
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