The Last Post… Storytelling Will Be Back

… for next year’s freshies.

Okay, I admit I’m one post too late. But the other one is too early (beacuse I know many people just wait till the last minute to blog)! So I’ll just combine last week’s post with this week one together.

Last week was kind of slack; watched “Eat Wind” and listened to the lecture blah. Jiabing actually copied notes! The ones below are form her blog. Thou shall not plagiarise, so I’ll cite! Lim, J.B. (2007). Week 7th’s Notes. Retrieved November 27, 2007, from (wordpress?). Website: itsabird.wordpress.com. I was just practising for Mr Patrick’s APA citation test this thursday.

- Fixed eye.
- Characters are there and they’re developed (things happening around him or happens to him?)
- Chainsaw is our friend
- Too lengthy? Not enough?
– Let readers crave for more rather than crave to end.
- “where do my scenes begin? Where do they end?”
- More happenings than describing the person.
- Naggy dialogues?
- show but not tell. (tell someone about the accident or talk about the accident)
- Interesting enough? (high stakes/more to lose)
- matter enough? make the audience feel for the characters.
- torture your characters!

I’ve also recieved the many feedbacks for my draft. What I got was sick, strange and all-those-pscho-would-do kind of comments. Jeez, I was so freakin worried (and still am)! Before writing this post, I saw this one new comment from someone on the 50 words stories page. His story made me laugh and boost my post-writing spirit:

Mummy, what is pesticide for?” Little Johnny asks.
“To kill pests,” she replies to the keen learner.
The next day, Johnny brings a can of pesticide to school and sprays it on Tim when he starts talking to Little Jane.
“Stay away from her, you pest!” Johnny shouts at Tim

“Leon” is a good movie. I like the part when leon dies (not in a sadistic kind of way) – like how his vision goes bright as he fell to he ground. I managed to watch “Taxi Driver” too. The way they speak is so funny, like ‘I’m going to boogie” which is what I’m going to do soon.

I hate saying that this would probably be the last post in this blog. Storytelling on. \__/ (Don’t go like “whatever”).