In this weeks classes we worked on reading and critiquing other peoples short stories. The thought of someone reading mine mine was fairly daunting, especially since I wasnt entirely happy with it myself and never would have shared it if it wasn’t a Uni assignment.

On the other hand reading someone else’s (in my case Griffen’s short story) was interesting, and gaining an insight into other people’s creative process is fascinating and insightful. It also served to heighten my anxiety about someone reading mine, because her’s was so good and I was worried that if everyone wrote stuff similar to that, mine would stand out.

But luckily my fears did not amount to anything because the person who read and critiqued my short story was Jeremy Costa, who gave me an reassuring thumbs-up in class and later wrote a comment on my blog.

His comment was enthusiastic and very positive of my short story, he “got it” so to speak. It was interesting to see his interpretations of my short story, and served as an example how vauge elements can be read wildly different by different people. Especially since I was focused so much on keeping to the word limit, and drawing on the readings trying to limit exposition.

Despite my fear to submit it for others to read, it would also be fascinating to see the assumptions made by multiple people about certain story elements and how they compare to my original vision.