Reflection # 3

Delmy DelCid

Mrs.DeFeo

October 22, 2011 Reflection # 3

Writing fiction is a part of you that wants to get away from reality and you create your own world where everything is the way you wish it would be. My fictional writing all come from my surrounding, my experiences, my dreams and what I want my life to be. “I write about the things that trouble me, I write about the things that disturb me, the things that won’t let me alone, the things that are eating my brain at three in the morning, the things that unbalance my world.” Writing fiction to me is an adventure, a trip outside my reality that makes me feel safe and comfortable. My surroundings tell me everything that I want my life to be as well as reminding me about the problems I am going through and the ones I have been in. “ I carry these things around inside my head until I’m compelled to write them down and get rid of them. I sit down and begin.”

My observations to create a good story would be about my experiences dealing with my first love. Most fiction stories are based on relationships. Fairytales become really important to my writing because I used this to create the perfect relationship, but sometimes family comes first. Dealing with family also inspires me to write fiction because of how my family is and how I want my family to be. “Perhaps the best thing about family is that all of the emotions within it depend upon love, which is the most powerful. All the darker one—rage and hatred and resentment—result from the absence of love, or its withholding; but love is the prime mover.” When I write about either my family or love, is all based on my experiences that I dealt with throughout my life. My disappointments, my dreams and my turning points are all based on my life but I add some things that become a lie and it becomes my fictional writing, my recipe of my escape. “I know where I’m going; I’m going toward that troubling moment, the unforgivable statement, the irreversible act that has been gnawing at me.” This quote relates a lot to my writing because my writing is all about me and all those feelings that stay inside me and don’t have a way to come out but through writing it’s different.

The themes I use from my observations would be love, hate, family and yourself. I mostly use these themes because I have a lot of experience with each of them and it’s become a power for me to write about these themes. “We’re people elated, sustained and nourished, all by the powerful, devastating, inescapable bonds within the family.” Creating a story out of these four themes becomes a really great story because it becomes a true story to some of the readers because either they lived it through or they are going through it. Writing fictional becomes my strength because I can relate my writing to others writings and escape from what a person or myself are trying to escape from.