Finally, we have started short stories. Although I find poetry interesting and captivating to a certain degree, I am not enamored with it. Maybe I don't understand it enough? Maybe some people just aren't real "poetry people." I can appreciate poetry, and I put poets in very high esteem. But either way, I much prefer short stories.
It's interesting for me to read them, because, I could see myself writing them someday. For some reason, in my mind, they seem more manageable than writing long, sometimes monotonous novels. I know that there isn't that much money in short story writing, which, in reality, should probably bother me, and maybe it will someday, but it doesn't now. I'm genuinely excited to start reading short stories, and my mind is absolutely teeming with ideas about writing my own (which I've been told we do...). I'm obviously not going to confess them all here, because where would the fun be in that? But, I will say, that reading these short stories, like Cathedral, is already helping with the undeveloped ideas swimming inside my racking brain.
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Katie, I'm with ya on short stories. I'm excited for this unit as well because I've always liked seeing someone go through different mind-sets. In poems you only get to see one little part of their thoughts or just one little scene. Also, short stories are a little bit easier to read than novels just because they are short, but can still have the same lasting affect like a novel. Well overall, I'm probably just as excited as you.
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