Writing Visual
Lately I've been asked to write a short story that "paints a picture" in the reader's mind. This is in my Language Arts class, and it is due next Thursday.
We had just finished reading another short story that very graphically describes a sex scene. It was called "the storm" and was about an adventurous Cajun housewife that takes an old flame into her home while her husband and child are sheltered in a store down the road.
The "visual" part was during the sex scene, as you may have guessed. We speed-read the story in class, and discussed writing in a visual fashion.
Next it was our turn. We were told to write a short story that is very visually oriented. I had a hard time coming up with something that would work as a "visual" piece, but finally I landed on something that no one would associate with sex, or with women.
I had made it my mission, you see, to make something very much distinct from the theme of the short story we read in class. I was frankly disturbed by the piece of what could certainly be classified as "porno" that we were reading in that class, so my story was going to depart as far as possible from that model.
My subject, cliché though it was, was a sunset; with subsequent sunrise. Speaking in visual terms, it is an excellent starting point for your "visual" story, that is no doubt why it is such an obvious cliché.
Above is the story I finally hammered out, if you wish to bother yourself with reading it.
We had just finished reading another short story that very graphically describes a sex scene. It was called "the storm" and was about an adventurous Cajun housewife that takes an old flame into her home while her husband and child are sheltered in a store down the road.
The "visual" part was during the sex scene, as you may have guessed. We speed-read the story in class, and discussed writing in a visual fashion.
Next it was our turn. We were told to write a short story that is very visually oriented. I had a hard time coming up with something that would work as a "visual" piece, but finally I landed on something that no one would associate with sex, or with women.
I had made it my mission, you see, to make something very much distinct from the theme of the short story we read in class. I was frankly disturbed by the piece of what could certainly be classified as "porno" that we were reading in that class, so my story was going to depart as far as possible from that model.
My subject, cliché though it was, was a sunset; with subsequent sunrise. Speaking in visual terms, it is an excellent starting point for your "visual" story, that is no doubt why it is such an obvious cliché.
Above is the story I finally hammered out, if you wish to bother yourself with reading it.
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