“Working inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working.”
― Michael Crichton
Here I provide an introduction to my Narrative Project and links to the relevant blog posts that served as part of my writing process. In my second blog post for this class, writing-process-roundtable.html, I wrote about myself meeting up with Don Murray, Anne Lamott, and Mary Karr. However, as part of my creative genius, I had the scene take place in the year 1977, down in Texas at a Texaco Gas Station. For my third blog post, I wrote about an encounter my dad and I had with a cat down at the shore towards the end of September this year. However, with my creative genius once again shining through, I had the scene take place in 1977, again. However, the dialogue from what actually took place that night compared to my blog is exactly the same. I really was talking with my dad that night about a Don Knotts skit where he plays a baseball announcer that keeps screwing up his words. I only briefly mentioned "Smokey and the Bandit" in that scene just to drive home the point that it took place in 1977. I was also trying to honor Burt Reynolds with my blog, since I heard Burt sadly passed away the morning of when I started that blog.
Anyway, when I created blog post #4, I had Jaws on the brain. At that time, I had just recently watched an old recording on Youtube of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert reviewing Jaws 3-D and Jaws the Revenge. I loved the cutthroat way they criticized the terrible directing of the last two final entries in the series, but it inspired me, as usual. So, I created a blog post which detailed the introduction of a new entry in the Jaws series that I was thinking about created. If it was ever published, or picked up by a director in Hollywood, it would've been presented as an alternate third entry which ignores Jaws 3-D and Jaws the Revenge. I also wanted it to reference the first two films, as evidenced by the short appearance of Jackie Peters, better known as "The Screamer" from the final act of Jaws 2, and Chief Brody's K5 Blazer that he used on screen in the original Jaws. Next, in my fifth blog post, I mentioned that a friend of my cousin Gabbi caused a car accident which knocked out the power in my neighborhood. Trapped inside for the long weekend, I decided to sit down and read both of Michael Crichton's "Jurassic Park" novels. Feeling very inspired by the late Sir Michael Crichton, I made two new documents in Google, one of which was a story of his entire life, and the other which used a set up for the overall construction that mirrored the way he wrote both "Jurassic Park" novels. Let me give you an example. If a certain character named Eddie Carr might meet an uncertain end to raptors in a certain section of the book, you might simply title that section Eddie. And, using that premise, I set out to start an idea for a novel in which four rookie traffic cops in a distopian society named Hampstead in the year 2060 set out to rid their streets of criminals. They're all very fed up with hearing crooks and criminals alike screaming police brutality every time they go out onto the street. So, they begin picking off the criminals that the people of their city know, so that their actions will hopefully be understood. After that, I mentioned my younger cousin Kate in my sixth blog post. I made up a couple of details, but for the most part it was all true. I mentioned through the use of dialogue in that scene how Kate decided to not take track anymore because of how her stupid coach refused to put her in during any events. It was a little white lie that I called her coach and demanded he put Kate in at the next meet, and that I trained her for the event, but that's exactly what just about everyone would do in that situation for their younger sibling, isn't it? In conclusion, for all of my blog posts for this class, so far anyway, I have perfectly showed off my skills in Creative Writing.
This is the link to my narrative project.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tWObJmm5xetHwD2aI-RNnmJrPs-ePVHgwb4YUyRmiYM/edit?usp=sharing
And with that being said, here is the link to my second draft of my narrative project.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZLOiVuP0RpdChKZaVUUgZOtXientBt80srogz8b0mvY/edit?usp=sharing
**Insert update about revising my story in draft #2. Add hyperlink to blog #9.