So I have to write another exercise for Creative Writing, to be posted by today. I don't like this one as much as I like last week's. I think the problem is that these ideas always come to me as part of whatever story I'm currently obsessing over. At the moment, that's my planned NaNo-novel, the beauty and the beast retelling. So Noelle makes
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Sorry this isn't more organized or lucid feedback. All in all I like it, a lot.
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I'm really happy you liked the images, because we're supposed to use these exercises as a chance to practice "showing, not telling" and the best way to show is through imagery.
I was definitely going for the same feel you get in the Beauty and the Beast movie. I've never seen another movie version of it either -- wait, that's a lie, I just watched this weird anime-style one on YouTube that was awkward because Beauty looked like she was maybe six years old. But the Disney one takes the cake for sure.
When I write up my Freudian analysis of myself, one of the things it'll be sure to talk about is how I need to feel approval because I'm constantly insecure and how this all stems back to when I was jealous that I didn't have a penis.
Basically, thank you. You've said basically what I needed to hear.
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I know exactly what you mean about showing as opposed to telling, and I like it. You got that down here.
I have read a lot of retellings of it various places. The one I told you about is one of my favorite because it turns it around a little. Or kinda a lot. I don't want to ruin it, but I really want to get it to you. Haha.
Hm. Well, I definitely share the need for approval. But my analysis will tell you how I hide it by rejecting penises (penii?) all together, because of my fright at their obvious dominance and superiority. Okay, I don't really reject them all together, but for the sake of Freud's theory that women only react one of three ways to their realization that they will always be lacking (literally), I will classify myself as a lesbian for this analysis.
Now we just need a woman who handles her deficiency by becoming a dominatrix of sorts and flaunting the fact that she in no way needs approval (she’s lying, of course. The only reason her husband is the weaker one is because he had no father and didn’t learn to be a man in trying to win his mother’s heart). Once we get her, we’ll have the whole set. I hear it goes for quite a bit on ebay.
I think I love us.
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I'll definitely have to read the one you keep talking about. Francesca Lia Block, right? I might have to look for a copy around here...
Your analysis already makes me laugh. We really do need a set -- if we could pull that off we could make millions on ebay! I'd only be worried about who would buy us... *awkward*
For the record, I know I love us. :)
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I'll bring it to you. Or I could mail it to you, I really don't mind paying the postage, but my ex has it. Scratch that, my friend has it. That's the more important label of the two.
Highly awkward. But very very funny. We could probably get our own reality show, at the very least.
Okay fine, just out do me. Psh.
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Beat that :)
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