Quick thoughts on week 3 exercise (not really class assignment).

Ok...this is more of a ramble, than anything coherent. The blog I posted just a bit before this is the one for the actual assignment. This is just thoughts, that I may revisit tomorrow and see if I can improve my assignment. I think I did pretty good at the task sheets and thinking about different people. I can easily answer the questions for a range of different people.

I was playing around with the Exercise 31 too. Kind of got away from the exercise we are supposed to do...but just wanted to get used to describing certain types and get my mind going.

The making the hero flawed portion (Exercise 29) is definitely going to help with my short story. Even if I don't go with my first plot idea, I think this will be something I will reread. For the blog posting, I don't believe we were supposed to incorporate it...as it is just a character introduction. I started hinting at things, but never really expanded on this.

The 1st person versus 3rd person exercise .... I failed. To me, I can change from "I" to "he" and not get dramatic differences. The only time I can see the obvious benefit to 3rd person is if you have multiple characters that you want to have their thoughts and behaviors better utilized. If it is a primarily one person story, I can't see how one way is too different from others. So...I am missing something there. If anyone reads this, can they tell me what I am missing?

So...I posted my introduction. It might be longer than I needed to. I think I described the workplace better than the person. I might have went with too much physical description, though I attempted to keep that to a minimum. I tried to subtley sneak in her mannerisms, but I am unsure if I added enough to it. I want to share what I think I added, and how I perceived it...but I think that goes against the heart of the exercise. This was my third character I started writing on. I stopped on the other two. Maybe tomorrow I will attempt one of the ones I abandoned. I wanted to try a female, as I don't believe I have ever written primarily from a female perspective. Let's see how off I am on how women think and act.