Assignmet #2 Fiction Writing- The Begining of Stories

Allllright! More blogging! I don't know if I added enough L's to show my excitement, but I'm excited. It's been a couple of weeks, but I think I have "this" blogging down. So my reason for blogging today is "WHAT ARE MY FEELINGS FOR STORY BEGINNINGS INNINGS INNINGS!" That's suppose to be me shouting of a cliff, and also my sad attempt at satire. I digress, any way, I usually don't care for story beginnings. I am the type of person that's more for the ride. I have to sit through it, no matter how lame the story is, until the ending. I'm just curious that way.

Ok so now I have to Blog about an assigned short story, storied beginning and compare it with my fave book. Hmmm, I got it! "Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story," by Russel Banks and "William Shakespeare's Star Wars," by Ian Doescher. I know I know, but there was love in Star wars too!

Here's a little bit from the beginning story of "Sarah Cole: A Type Of Love Story," by Russel Banks.

TO begin, then, here is a scene in which I am the man and my friend Sarah Cole is the woman. I don’t mind describing it now, because I’m a decade older and don’t look the same now as I did then, and Sarah is dead. That is to say, on hearing this story you might think me vain if I looked the same now as I did then, because I must tell you that I was extremely handsome then. And if Sarah were not dead, you’d think I were cruel, for I must tell you that Sarah was very homely. In fact, she was the homeliest woman I have ever known. Personally, I mean. I’ve seen a few women who were more unattractive than Sarah, but they were clearly freaks of nature or had been badly injured or had been victimized by some grotesque, disfiguring disease. Sarah, however, was quite normal, and I knew her well, because for three and a half months we were lovers.

This beginning passage starts with a situation where the writer cleverly starts the story with a dramatic situation and lures us in further by adding satire.You kinda feel for the chap, then you loose it.

Now off to the wars, Star wars, Shakespeare style. Or should I say ACT 1!

C-3PO     Now is the summer of our happiness Made winter by this sudden, fierce attack! Our ship under siege, I know not how. O hast thou heard? The main reactor fails! We shall most surely be destory'd by this. I'll warrant madness herin!
 R2-D2    -beep beep,
Beep ,beep, meep, squeak, beep, beep, beep, whee!
                -We're doomed.

I chose these two story beginnings, because in a sense they're both written very comically. We have two situations, where the authors play with the words in a more subtle matter, like homely woman.

They are two very different stories, but they will tickle your funny bones, unless you've lost your funny bones. Then I pity thee.

Assignment #1 Fiction Writing- A quote from my Favorite book

I've been assigned in my Fiction Writing class, to quote a dialogue from my favorite book. So I will Blog! I don't have a particular favorite book, because I love them all so much, and I secretly think they fight for my affection. I shall commence the blogging.

I've chosen the book, The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen, because it was a gift given to me. I still cherish it dearly. Here is my chosen dialogue.

    Chloe walked to a long bank of boxes, stacked chest high, a lifetime of books that had come to her. "So, what do you like to read?" She put a hand on one of the marked boxes. "I have mysteries. I have romance. I have history. Self-help. Classics."
     "Romance," Josey said.
     "I have the most of those, ironically, "Chloe said, walking over to the boxes on the far end. Josey followed. "I read these just before I met Jake. Tons of them. As soon as I finished one, there was another."
     "How magical," Josey said.