Reflective Essay On A Midsummer's Night Dream

The story and the imagery is this poem is very chilling in a good way. It makes you want to read more and I want to do that with my poetry. This is one of the reasons I have chosen to include poetry in my thesis. A lot of the challenges that I have done for my fiction are the same as the ones that I made for my poetry. Another poet / playwright that I have read is Shakespeare. The way his works just flow is amazing. One of my favorite works that I love to read is A Midsummer’s Night Dream. I have always loved the fairy realm and magical realism in stories.

Fiction writing is what a majority of my writing is and there have been several authors that have inspired me. One of those authors I discovered in middle school, Rick Riordan, author of

I am surprised at how open people were to giving ideas to help move my stories along and constructive criticism. Throughout high school, constructive criticism was something that I had to ask for while here at Bowling Green State University people would give it to me whether I asked for it or not. It was a good surprise because sometimes in high school, there were even times when I asked for constructive criticism and still didn’t get any. I have linked my minor to my writing, which is Psychology. I chose this as my minor to help with developing my characters. That has been several comments made by people in workshops, that my characters were flat and generic. I have written a series of vignettes about a young woman who finds out that she has dissociative identity disorder. It started out as a four page short story, but I didn’t believe that it was finished, so when the opportunity came I took it. I ended up changing the format of the story into a vignette style and extending it by several

My fiction writing when I first came into the program was described many times by people as instructional. This can be linked to what I said earlier about the lack of constructive criticism that I received back during my high school writing days. I went back over several first drafts of my stories and saw what they were talking about. I did a lot of ‘then this happened’ type of sentences and overall it read very choppy and didn’t flow too well. I try to write out the main points of stories and then try to make it flow together. There have been some instances of my first drafts of fiction today still being that way, but it doesn’t appear throughout the entire story. I also had a lot of grammar and punctuation problems, mostly that is a time management issue that I had. I would make so I almost never had the time to proofread my works. That caused me to get chewed to bits more than once in workshop. I have since then made sure that I’ve had time to proofread my