My Writing Reflection

The classes which I had taken helped inspired this project I am writing: Creative Writing, which taught me character development. Before I get to far into the story— it is wise to start on a character sketch. This helps improves the dynamics of the characters in my writing. The classes creative non-fiction and advanced creative non-fiction both inspired me to improve the plots within my work. There are techniques such as horizontal and vertical plot structure, which add layers of complexity within my story. It also helps engage my readers. The first creative writing course which I took at Regis University was play writing. This course reiterated to me how valuable both conflict and character development are to writing. Each scene in a
It revolves around the last twelve years of my life, where I lived on Colfax avenue. The work that I am writing, is a semi-autobiographical. I’ve been inspired by literature I have been reading throughout my life, as well as the creative writing classes I have took in the past. Certain authors have influenced my writing with their writing styles. I have studied how particular writers used narrative techniques, juxtaposition, imagery, and metaphors to engage their readers into reading their work. These writers wrote semi-autobiographical novels to capture moments of uncertainty within their
Thompson. He had the ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Thompson had a wild imagination and kept his readers guessing through his ability to tell a story. He had blurred the line between fiction and non-fiction through his eccentric behavior. I have learned one have the ability to make their writing interesting through their imagination like Thompson once did. The books that I had fallen in love with are, “ Hell’s Angels,” and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” Hunter had made writing rebellious and dangerous like Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey. He was a rebel and an outlaw like the both of them. Reading the works of Hunter S. Thompson—are like riding a rollercoaster with no drop-bar. His unique word choice had crafted wild imagery within his work. Hunter S.Thompson was a word-smith. He peculiarly picked the right words to print on to the page. He was very detailed into telling he own view and persona into his stories which were meant to be non-fiction. As a reader and at once young teenager, I never thought I could be engaged with politics, but his work had made the political arena very appealing to me. I had gotten to learn history and politics through the eyes of a madman, who was Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson was great capturing the absurdity of the political system into this work. He lampooned politicians and thus paved the way for new writers and many new