Short Story In Drinking Coffee Elsewhere By ZZ Packer

Writing my short story "LUCK" has been quite a challenge. At the same time, it was also a pleasure to write a story. I 've been waiting the whole semester for the short story section of English 286. I wanted to learn different storytelling methods and I did. I learned there are various different points of views a story can be told from. I chose first person central "I" Narration for my story, following the story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” by ZZ Packer.

Packer in her story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere”, presented central narration in a very distinct manner. This story is depicted through many actions and dialogues. Packer’s character begins by speaking about herself. Following this, in my story I began with my narrator talking about herself and then the events and characters that happened to her. “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” 's narrator has a distinct voice that stays consistent with her character throughout the story. This is why during my first draft, my main focus was my narrator 's voice staying consistent with her character. After the first workshop, I realized how bad I failed at following Packer 's central narration. Packer’s story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere” had many detailed scenes. My professor and group mates pointed out that my story lacked
This is when I began to struggle in telling this story. During the revision draft, my focus became adding important scenes between my character 's. I went back to Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, to follow Packer 's dialogue structures, how they are merged into the story.But when I went to write, I found it difficult to think of scenes taking place between cancer patients. Which made adding dialogue to the story even harder. I knew my character 's very well, but I wasn 't very clear about their everyday situation in the hospital. After a lot debating on what sound 's realistic, I added the head shaving scene in my