Writing is a process

In this blog entry, I will share my personal experience in the creation and narration of the original short story.  When we were assigned this activity, the first thought that came to my mind was “Hmm create a short story, no problem we just have to write words on a document and that’s it”, but at the moment of taking action and starting to write. Something unexpected happened. No ideas came to my mind, no memories, no personal experience that I could draw inspiration from; my mind looked like a blank canvas and I was there like a disillusioned painter. I felt a bit sad, but then I realized that I was thinking too much about trying to write the right words or the perfect idea instead of just free writing like one girl in my group was doing. So I tried to do that in some parts of the story and I think it was a good idea because even though I wasn’t the most inspired person in the world, I was writing some random words that slowly turned into sentences and then paragraphs.

One thing that helped me write was to reread what we had in the story and try to create the scene in my mind with the setting and the characters. Then, I tried to imagine what the characters would do or what would happen next. I did the same thing when I wanted to better describe a place in the story. I hope that as you read our short story (the true love book) you will also imagine the places as we imagine them in our minds.

Overall, the process of creating the original short story was a pretty good experience even if I had some problems at the beginning, I know that it is all part of the writing process, and in the end I really enjoyed creating a story in which we used our imagination and creativity instead of just taking an exam as an evaluation. Thanks for that Miss Analía :) I definitely hope to repeat this experience in the future. 

Now talking a little bit about my experience narrating a part of the story, I would say that it was something new for me because although I had already recorded audio presentations; I had never sent a narration of a story and I consider that sending an audio of a story is different as you have to speak with more emotion and feeling instead of speaking formally and in an academic tone. From my point of view, it was an entertaining and fun experience in which I felt like I was recording an audiobook to upload to YouTube. During the process, I tried to have a good tone of voice, intonation, and pronunciation (to be honest, I had to look up the pronunciation of some words as I was not very familiar with some of them). Also, I tried to avoid audio interference or background noises although this was a little complicated to achieve as some neighbors were building, however in the end I think the audio turned out well. In conclusion, I had a really great time and I would definitely like to do it again. 

Thank you very much for reading ♡