Sometimes looking through the clutter helps
So I've recently started going through the five odd years of writing that exist on my computer and stumbled upon a few things that I'm really considering tweaking for expansion and lengthening. The first was this decidedly weird writing assignment I had to do for my creative writing class which involved making up a story about this weird performance art piece my teacher and her b/f and friends put together for us. It was pretty nutty and my story of course used my somewhat removed voice to explain the scene before me. Right now the goal is to put it somewhere between 10 and 20 pages which would make it a little longer that most of the short stories I've attempted yet actually also give it the end that most of my things are lacking. This is one of the first times where I've actually worked backwards in the story, knowing where I want my characters to emerge at so now my task is to get them to that point.
There were also a few poems I'm interested in re-working but I find those harder to adapt in the truest sense because I feel like I was in a way different mindframe when I wrote them. It's easier to slip back into stories in my opinion because the characters certainly exist in more than a few lines and you can bring them back fast by even just attempting to find out where you last left them. But I'm hoping to do something with the poems because I'm sure that I enjoyed writing the poems more. I guess I shouldn't really say more or less but they begged to be written in that form so there must have been a reason. And everyone likes reasons don't they?
There were also a few poems I'm interested in re-working but I find those harder to adapt in the truest sense because I feel like I was in a way different mindframe when I wrote them. It's easier to slip back into stories in my opinion because the characters certainly exist in more than a few lines and you can bring them back fast by even just attempting to find out where you last left them. But I'm hoping to do something with the poems because I'm sure that I enjoyed writing the poems more. I guess I shouldn't really say more or less but they begged to be written in that form so there must have been a reason. And everyone likes reasons don't they?