Sorry for the backdated blog but last week was a crazy week. In our Week 3 Tuesday class we spent the majority of the lesson critiquing others work. Now it may seem simple but in fact it is more difficult than you would think. Not only do you have to seperate your emotional self from the text you have to look at the piece of writing in a way where you think you have the ability to give good critic on it. Now that was the hardest part for me. As I am an amateur story writer myself it was difficult to assess and provide criticism to another work. However, once I overcame this I found it quite a rewarding and insightful experience. I believe if anything it was a great learning experience because it gave you the opportunity to dissect a story in a way where you need to imagine character development, story development and how you could it advance it, not how you need to write it and plan out the story.

At first I was apprehensive for others to read my work because as we all know your hardest critic is yourself. However, after the class I felt more settled to the idea because if  ever I go into a writing workforce people would be reading and forming opinions on my work. You need to in a way let go of some the anxiety of other people reading your work. It was an added benefit that the critique I got was quite positive and helpful. Pointing out ways I could advance my story that I hadn’t thought of initially. I found that a lot of the theory we have read was put into practice in the work I was reading particularly the Manovich idea that the story needs to resolve itself by the end. This lead to some really interesting stories that didn’t worry to much about description but were oddly the most descriptive. Overall, a really good task that helps everyone involved in the process.