Post by mattymoron on May 19, 2014 13:34:32 GMT -5
I figured we could do this as a lower-pressure environment to share some of the pieces we're all working on and ask for critique and feedback. Generally, when workshopping someone else's work, you should always start with something positive before you rip it to shreds. 
Feel free to post anything, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, whatever.
Here's the latest piece I've been working on, it was my major story for Advanced Fiction this past semester. There are a lot of things I'd like to do with it, my professor wants to work with me to get it published over the summer (as well as with my girlfriend to publish hers, my professor shipped the two of us so hard, lol), and eventually I'd like to expand it to a novella or a short novel. It's about an unnamed boy in Michoacan in Mexico and how his life is effected by the narco-terrorist violence and the rise of the auto-defensa vigilante groups. I've recently become.... sort of obsessed with narco-terrorism, it's all so utterly heartbreaking. A lot of the dialogue in this piece comes verbatim from real interviews I've seen with people on various Al Jazeera America programs about narco-terrorism in Mexico. Everything that happens in this story happens every day all throughout Central and South America, all I've done is manufacture a narrative to attach the discrete elements to. Let me know what you guys think, there are still a few things that need fixing with this shorter piece, before I even begin to think about expanding it.
Feel free to post anything, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama, whatever.Here's the latest piece I've been working on, it was my major story for Advanced Fiction this past semester. There are a lot of things I'd like to do with it, my professor wants to work with me to get it published over the summer (as well as with my girlfriend to publish hers, my professor shipped the two of us so hard, lol), and eventually I'd like to expand it to a novella or a short novel. It's about an unnamed boy in Michoacan in Mexico and how his life is effected by the narco-terrorist violence and the rise of the auto-defensa vigilante groups. I've recently become.... sort of obsessed with narco-terrorism, it's all so utterly heartbreaking. A lot of the dialogue in this piece comes verbatim from real interviews I've seen with people on various Al Jazeera America programs about narco-terrorism in Mexico. Everything that happens in this story happens every day all throughout Central and South America, all I've done is manufacture a narrative to attach the discrete elements to. Let me know what you guys think, there are still a few things that need fixing with this shorter piece, before I even begin to think about expanding it.