“One Stage of Our Journey is Over. Another Begins." -Gandalf, “The Lord of the Rings”

Well, I thought that the personal narrative section was rather fun. Of course, almost anything with the word “narrative” in it has the potential to be enjoyable (please bear in mind that I said almost. I'm sure some English teacher somewhere has found a way of making even narratives unbearable. Good thing I don't know them.). My narrative wasn't quite as good as I would have liked it to be, but I suppose that is partially my fault for not putting enough effort into it and partially the fault of my choice of material.

With any luck, we'll get a chance to write a narrative on our choice of material (fiction or nonfiction, preferably fiction). Maybe I could check the syllabus. I'll be right back. Sadness. It looks like we're not going to get to write any more stories. What a pity. Well, I just hope that whatever it is that we will be doing will end up being both educational and highly entertaining. Anyway, back to my story.

I liked that my first paragraph was able to entice/intrigue people as I had hoped that it would. I liked that for the most part the conversation seemed to work. I didn't like the middle as much, as it seemed like “filler”, just a couple of paragraphs to get the reader from point A to point B. There were bits that I liked, but I was happy when I finally came up with a semi-decent way of editing that out in a manner that made it more like a story (which luckily is what it was supposed to be anyway). I thought that I was able to improve the last paragraph or so somewhat, though I would have liked to do more editing to that and the conversation.

I enjoyed the chance to write a story, but the huge mental block at the beginning where I couldn't come up with a single thing to write about? Not so much. I loved the chance to read the writings of our blog-members. Too bad we didn't get to read all of them. Oh well. I'm just glad that it turned out alright in the end.