Write up for the month

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ROLI MITTAL JALAN

ID UD181510

000AIU COURSE: Creative Writing

Assignment:

Creative Writing

ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

HONOLULU, HAWAII

OCTOBER 2012

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Table of Contents

1. Quotations on Writing 3

2. Introduction 3

3. Writers Tools Pen and Paper 3

4. Amateur Writers 4

5. Topics 5

6. Difficulty when one cant write anything 5

7. Noting down things 5

8. Characterization 6

9. Naming your Character 8

10. Setting your Scene 8

11. Beginnings 10

12. Dialogue Writing 12

13. 28 Creative Starters that can lead to an Interesting Story 13

14. Personal write up 14

15. Conclusion 21

16. Bibliography 21

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Quotations on Writing

1. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. ~

Ben Franklin

2. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. ~

Samuel Johnson

3. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on

plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. ~ Annie

Dillard

4. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your

editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ~ Mark

Twain

5. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and

took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. ~ Oscar Wilde

6. If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools

to write. ~ Stephen King

The above words quoted by some prolific writes summarizes how

delicate an art writing is and how it should be treated.

Introduction

A lot many people argue that writing is an inherited art, but most of the

writers disagree saying that writing is a discipline that should be practiced

religiously.

Professions like business, craftsmanship, and medical science only do not

need practice, studies and growth every day. Writers too need to enhance

their skills by updating umpteen aspects related to their profession at all

times. Illustration being a writer needs to build on to their vocabulary,

concreteness, abstractness and all that required to make a convincing

story all the time.

Writer’s Tools – Pen and Paper1

1 Goldberg.N (1986) shares similar views on writers Tool’s- Pen and Paper.

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Innumerable writers buying the fanciest, decorative and expensive pens

and notepads become extremely cautious while using it. They want to

express freely; they want to write freely but what if the note pad or the

pen gets spoilt. Words should flow freely; therefore while buying notepad

and pens one should not buy expensive stuff. This note pad is the best

note pad ever I should use it carefully. Its too expensive a pen, I should

use it properly. An amateur writer often gets involved in a vicious circle

like this. A writer should not be cautious of his tools because they are

expensive and fancy but because they are his tools.

Just like cobblers possessions are different kinds of knives, hammers,

nails, pincers, shoe brushes, shoe lasts shoe polish, threads of different

colours, needles, adhesive and scissors, a Writers possession is his pen

and paper.

A writer should indeed be cautious while buying his pen and paper.

While buying a pen he should not involve in the ultra luxurious Mont

Blanc, Swarovski, Cartier and also should not also go for the ink pens

that need refill time and again and get too messy. Instead he/ she should

purchase a ball pen that is cheap convenient and has a right flow. On the

other hand while buying a note pad one should buy something that is

easily carriable and can fit anywhere. A notepad at all times should not be

so bulky that it suppresses your own weight. Lot many writers are quite

specific about the paper they use. For example2, Roald Dahl wrote all his

books on American yellow legal pads, imported directly from New York.

Amateur Writers3

Writers are not born. Their experience and practice make them a writer.

It’s, not like Shakespeare, Byron, Tennyson and Wordsworth just stepped

out of their cradles and became writers. Instead in order to become the

popular writers they religiously practiced the profession and enhanced

their knowledge by various means like meeting up with all the writers,

inventing new words that added to the rich lexis of language, discovering

different styles like sonnets. Wordsworth gave so much importance to

nature that people not only felt deeply involved but also realized the

importance of trees, lakes, ponds etc.

2 [Dahl.R stated, (2007) “Roald Dahl wrote all his books on American yellow legal pads, imported

directly from New York.”]

3 Goldberg N (1986) shares similar views on Amateur Writers.

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Henceforth every writer who is young should not tremble if they cant get

their words right or get no words at all ever after spending long tiring

hours. They should just stick to writing by practicing it as a daily custom

to get the best results.

Topics4

There are times when one sees a beautiful country or meet a lovely

person and want to jot down their experience. Myth being one should pen

down the experience immediately where in reality one should never pen

down the experience immediately.

The previously mentioned statement is true because when one fully

involved into something they might not be able to express the real

feelings and do justice to their writing. For example if one meet a boy and

fall in love with him. They will not be able to say more than I love him. I

adore him immediately. Another parallel example would be I just

travelled to Austria and loved the polished people there. Also, I went to

Budapest and loved the whole partying culture there but if I start noting

down the experience immediately all I will put in the paper is. I love the

polished people in Vienna. The partying culture in Budapest is

breathtaking. So I prefer to give this travel of mine a little space, letting it

come to my memory in installments and then probably writing a stirring

travelogue.

Difficulty when one can’t write anything5

One must have witnessed a scenario at some time in life where he/she

wants to write but just cant think of a topic. Everyone comes through

these mind blockages. A simple solution to which is one should note

down a fascinating topic or a quote as and when they come across it and

work on the same when they just can’t think of what to write.

Noting down things6

4 Goldberg N (1986) shares similar views on Topics. 5 Goldberg N (1986) shares similar views on Difficulty when one can’t write anything. 6 Goldberg N (1986) shares similar views on Noting down things.

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Its pertinent to note down stuff that one think is captivating in a handy

book that a writer should always carry with them. For example, I came

across some beautiful things that I noted

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If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

You all do know this mantle. I remember

The first time ever Caesar put it on.

'Twas on a summer’s evening in his tent,

That day he overcame the Nervii.

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Debagonisation

First line from Famous Books9

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of

a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

I might not have used these the above mentioned quotes, one liner and

word, but who knows in the future when the time is right, and the space is

correct I might just use it somewhere in my writing.

Important Ingredients of Creative writing

Characterization10

Characterization is one of the most critical components of fictional writing.

During the process, of characterization a writer literally has to flesh out a

character. He has to give his characters bones, mass, blood and oxygen in

7 [Shakespeare. W (1599) stated, “If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this

mantle. I remember, The first time ever Caesar put it on.’ Twas on a summer’s evening in his tent, That

day he overcame the Nervii.”

8[Crystal.D (2006) stated, Debagonisation.”]

9 [Austen.D (1813) stated, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a

good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”]

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[Basnet.B (2005) creative writing student, British council, Nepal, shared different views regarding

Characterization.]

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order to make him alive to his readers. Because a writer is giving birth to a

character, has to know everything about him.

Characterization can get convenient with the help of the intelligible

character sketch given below

Characters name:

Nickname:

Sex:

Age:

Looks:

Hair:

Dress:

Body type:

Face (any outstanding

features)

Education:

Vocation/Occupation:

Status and money:

Marital status:

Relationships:

Family ethnicity:

Diction, accent:

Habits, mannerisms:

Favorite places:

Possessions:

Recreation and hobbies:

Obsessions:

Religion/beliefs:

Politics:

Ambitions:

Fears:

Character flaws:

Character strengths:

Pets:

Taste in books, music,

etc.

Food preferences:

Astrological sign

Talents:

Handwriting:

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Correspondence:

Naming your Character11

While naming ones child a parent might go wrong as they don't know

how the child is going to turn out to be., However, there is no excuse for

a writer getting the characters name not right as he has to know the

character that he has created better than his spouse or siblings.

Naming your character can get convenient practicing easy tasks like the

one given below now and then.

Exercise

Name the following characters, keeping in mind that you can plant,

within a name a clue to their role in your fiction.

A petty white-collar thief who

slowly and calculatingly robs his

boss over several years.

Peter

A typical Indian girl who is not

only very pretty but also very down

to earth.

Gayatri

A girl who look hot but is

extremely wicked

Veronica

A grandmother who just won a

million rupees

Pearl

The owner of a fast-food restaurant

who is always trying to ‘chat up’

his young female employees.

Tony

Setting your Scene12

One certainly cannot have dessert without sugar similarly a story without

setting too seems incomplete. Setting gives a story a sense of time and

place. Even if, you add something as basic as “mid of June on a stormy

night”, it adds sense to your story.

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Naming your Character.]

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Things to take care of while setting your scene

1. ‘White room syndrome’ happens when the story has no mention of time

or place, whether the story is indoors or outdoors. Such a state should be

avoided at all costs.

2. Less is more. Too much description can get monotonous for readers and

also it might interfere with the movement of the story.

3. Being concrete at all times is suggested illustration being if you know the

dog is Labrador why use the word dog for him. The type of dog your

characters neighbor walks with every morning says something about the

owner.

4. Mangolia, palm, or pine, sounds much better than a tree as it reveals

climate.

5. Readers aren’t stupid so one can avoid explaining too much. For

example, if someone is watching a movie one can avoid mentioning

switching on the TV; switching on the DVD player as the majority is

acquainted with the procedure.

6. Daffodils and chrysanthemums reveal season.

7. If you are mentioning a book with tattered pages or a gun that was buried

ever since ages it should have some significance. You must not mention

stuff just for the sake of it.

8. Avoid sameness in your scene. Don’t open all your scenes at an ice-

cream parlor or a beauty salon. Make your characters visit different

places.

9. You should research places thoroughly before you mention them in your

story so that you can convince the readers that you have visited the

particular place.

10. Avoid clichés in your story. Don’t describe girls wearing checked skirts

and boots. There is more to Paris than Eiffel tower, and London isn’t

always gray and foggy. There are some truly intriguing buildings out

there.

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Setting your scene can get convenient practicing easy tasks like the one

given below.

Exercise

Create a setting for one of the following characters and furnish that

character through observation of the setting. The place can be any kind of

locale-house, a specific room in a house, outdoors or indoors, an office, a

cell even a bed. The description must incorporate enough characteristic

things so that the reader can visualize the absentee dweller accurately.

Try to avoid stereotypes.

A cocktail waitress down on her luck

A former movie star who still thinks she is famous

An unsuccessful painter

A blind person

A paraplegic

A high school senior about the drop out

A member of lunatic fringe political group

A supermarket checkout woman who just won the state lottery

A social climber

A paranoid person

A foster child

A fugitive form the law

Beginnings13

Beginning is hugely powerful while writing a novel. A lot many readers

decide whether they want to continue the book seeing the beginning and

mostly all authors give plenty of time deciding what their novels

beginning will be.

There are several ways a writer can develop his narrative with

1. Beginning with a Dialogue

Quote Author Title Year

13 [Basnet.B (2005) creative writing student, British council, Nepal, shared different

views regarding Beginnings.]

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1 “When your mama was

the geek, my

dreamlets,” papa would

say, “ she made the

nipping off of noggins

such a crystal mystery

that the hens themselves

yearned towards her,

waltzing around her,

hypnotized with

longing.”

Katherine

Dunn

Geek Love 1983

2. Beginning with a Description of a Person

Quotation Author Title Year

Somewhere in la

Mancha, in a place

whose name I do not

care to remember, a

gentleman lived not long

ago, one of those who

has a lance and ancient

shield on a shelf and

keeps a skinny nag and a

greyhound for racing.

Miguel de

Cervantes

(trans. Edith

Grossman)

Don Quixote 1605

3. Beginning with a Generalization


1 My mother

believed you could

be anything you

wanted to be in

America

Amy Tan Two

Kinds

1989

4. Beginning with a child Narrator


When I was in third Ellen Victory Over 1984

12

grade I knew a boy who

had to have fourteen

shots in the stomach as a

result of squirrel bite.

Gilchrist Japan

5. Beginning with a Narrative Summary


An unfortunate

circumstances in my life

has just recalled to mind

a Dr. Crombie and the

conversations, I use to

hold with him when I

was young. He was the

school doctor until the

eccentricity of his ideas

became general know.

Graham

Greene

Doctor

Crombie

Several other methods to begin your novel would be

1. Beginning with several characters but no dialogue

2. Beginning with a setting and only one character

3. Beginning with a reminiscent narrator

4. Beginning by establishing a point of view

Dialogue Writing14

Dialogue writing is an essential ingredient in writing that adds spice to

the story. It can be extremely tricky to write dialogues, as we don’t pen

down what we talk normally as dialogues as it can be extremely tedious

and monotonous to the readers.

What does dialogues do to our narratives?

1. Shows what the character thinking

2. An economical way to define/reveal a character by the way he or she

speaks - accent, vocabulary, idioms - sometimes telling us more about a

character than his actions do

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3. Provides an opportunity to use common idioms

4. Provides tension-emotion

5. Advancement of the story/plot more quickly than discourse

6. The way a character talks –vocabulary, tone, style and sense of give the

writer an opportunity to let the viewers know exactly what he wants

them to know.

Exercise

Record several different TV shows. Some choices include: sitcom, news,

drama, talk show, infomercial, sporting event etc.) Write down a

transcript using just the dialogue and peoples name. If you don’t know

the names, just use a description such as announcer or read headed

woman. You can also transcribe two shows of the same genre, using one

show you like and one you dislike. Compare dialogue between fiction

and non -fiction you recorded. Look for such things as greetings

descriptions of physical actions, complete sentences, slang, and verbal

tricks. (Such as like, you know, uhhh, well, etc.). Compare how these

dialogue crutches change according to the show format and quality.

28 Creative Starters that can lead to an Interesting

Story

1. This is my fathers/mothers job.

2. Reasons why people lie.

3. These are the reasons why I don’t go to church.

4. I just can’t seem to get along with anyone.

5. I wish that I could…

6. The things that get me upset.

7. What I think about gambling.

8. I very much dislike…,because…

9. My life as a citizen of a new country

10. I have a disability.

11. What I would do if I were rich

12. The things that bug me.

13. My experience at the hospital.

14. The proudest moment of my life.

15. Why I like animals.

16. My favorite music group.

17. Qualities that I look for in a friend.

18. My accomplishments

19. The biggest mess that I ever got myself into.

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20. My least favorite subject.

21. The meaning of “freedom”.

22. I believe in god

23. I watch too much television.

24. I like cars.

25. The greatest summer ever.

26. This is my school.

27. I get scared when.

28. Reasons why people argue.

After reading plenty on creative writing, I thought of contributing

something towards the field too. Following is a story I wrote as an

example of the same.

Why do MOMENTS turn into FLASH BACK? “A number of you will become prizewinning, some of you won’t even

make a penny, a few of you will get hitched, some of you will run off

with your boyfriends, but you will still be my kids, my children, my

Mgdian’s” that’s what Rajmata told us in our send-off Speech.

Rajmata’s words echoed unmarked in my psyche while I was howling

and hugging my black Benetton tee. How I wish I could get back to

school. Pune, my present seemed like this gargantuan dingy toilet,

without lights, my future like a lizard taking continuous circles on the

ceiling and then there was a helpless me so scared of the lizard, so scared

of my unknown future.

Why are my nerves elongating recalling the belated, bitter goodbye? Why

is the farewell still spanking its glad and gloomy bits on my nous?

Lazily adjusting the car seat, I started scrutinizing the unconstructed

almost cemented suburbs of Pune contrasting it with delightful variations

of Jaipur. Simple things about life seemed to be changing. I was eating

wada pau and chai instead of the regular raj kachori and the famous M.I

road lassi that I preferred.

What is the state of 2 of my BEST

FRIENDS?

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Are Tinka and Rhea jittery about joining college or have they swallowed

doom with calm strength and constancy, unlike me. I am alone, and they

are together. In school, we were always a gang facing the whole lot, as

one. They were still together standing up for each other and me on my

own. Is it this thought that's killing me?

Tinka and I tossing down our first tequila shot. Rhea slipping a card and a

goodbye gift in my bag pack. School was so much more convenient than

college was going to be. Should those reminiscences I invested twelve

years of my life in be as convenient as letting a bygone go? Why do

moments turn into flash back?

In school we forever favored watching these teen age high school and

colleges flicks where there was grand gathering, girls wearing skimpiest

dresses, boys carrying the coolest gadgets, hot cheer leading squad doing

crazy gymnastics stunts, sexy premises, most stylish and funky cars in the

parking lot, handsome juvenile professors with breathtaking accent and a

few scholarly nerds always doing the accepted students homework.

Just the NIGHT before I was to ATTEND

COLLEGE

I kept going to the toilet every five min out of nervousness. I was so

tensed about what I would wear, how the crowd in college was going to

be, would I be popular enough for nerds to do my practical’s. In a

nutshell would I fit in? I earnestly endeavored, but these thoughts kept

escaping all night giving me sleep only in parts.

In my case, I call it CONVENIENT

ADMISSION

Schoolgirls of all sorts, sophisticated or with specks were set to shell out

any amount to get to Fergusson College. Sweating and bribing didn’t

help, so sorry they couldn’t click. While they toiled in the sun, I was

going gaga shopping singlet’s and shorts. My entrance as even as dad

sitting on an upholstered couch and scribbling a mere 645 US$ to the

international cell. I am a foreigner born with a silver spoon in my mouth.

Common! I don’t classify myself in the category of commoners who

smolder their skin from dawn to dusk just to surrender a goddamn receipt.

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My PREPARATION. Courtesy my dear cousin,

who I call XTCY

Starting with not having a gadget, I started pleading XTCY a day in

advance to give me her cell phone. Common! I didn’t want to be one of

those girls who go to a telephone booth to make every single call. XTCY

with green colour lenses and legs like roasted chicken has been the most

wild, adventurous, gossipy and charitable cousin to me.

Somehow thrilled; I now had a Panasonic-2250, which I had put on

charging. I also checked my wallet twice for having sufficient cash. Left

with only one dilemma that kept me hanging, even through forty winks,

what would I wear? I re-revised my wardrobe incalculable times in my

sleep. I left my crumbled bed at 5:00 am even when my lecture starts at

7:30 am. Sports being my sort I finally decided on wearing a pair of

comfortable Nike pajamas, sleeveless Adidas t-shirt and Puma slippers.

FIRST look of FERGUSSON COLLEGE

As I stepped out of the auto and saw Fergusson College for the first time,

I froze. I was encircled with terror. A weird world of morbid horrors

knocked my guts. Serene, quiet yet so serious and studious. I felt every

edifice had an exaggerated anecdote wanting to be unwrapped.

I paced the corridors to comprehend; my college was full of attractive

young woman, with just countable no of eye-catching boy’s. With no

map, I walked up to an almost uncle looking lad

“Excuse me, where is the English department?” I questioned rather

hesitantly

“Dharti ke uppar” he volunteered with the most disgusting smirk

Was he a clerk or a student? I didn’t know ignoring was a graphic I

excelled in until this one, but I knew if I stood there a second more, I

would turn barbaric and blood thirsty. Really, who talked like this? Wish

I knew some dominant abuses which I could whack on his face., If he

were a clerk I would understand but if he is a student then gosh! Where

was I? Not having time to think about the former I hurried to my lecture

for which I was already late.

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My FIRST LECTURE

Incomplete signboards eventually made me reach my first lecture. Damn!

Could anything on the globe be as dreary as sprinting? I was twenty-three

minutes late; however I thought my lecturer would be an invigorating

young professor who won’t pay much heed to my being late. So I walked

inside not taking permission and rapidly there was a roar instructing me

to get out. He embarrassed me in front of the entire class yelling in the

most abrupt accent for not having manners, dressing in an out of ordinary

manner. God if this is a how English professor talk, seriously where was

I?

I apologized so that at least I could enter. The class was undersized and

congested not having any of the elaborate facilities I had anticipated. A

lot of seats were vacant. In a jiffy, I knew the crowd sucked. In my entire

class, there were three average looking girls, two civilized looking boys

and just one hot looking boy with a seat empty on one of his side. A smile

hit my face as I saw that empty seat. Jackpot! God assuredly does listen

to you.

I grabbed my luck and that seat in no time. My dad always says

opportunity hits your door only once. So in reality I was sealed with this

guy. I agree, He was drop dead gorgeous, but something made me hate

him, right away. Possibly because he was giving someone else more

attention or probably his gaze was making me realize that my tomboy

vogue was taking me nowhere. I still can’t come back with that one

This is what happens when whom you find

HOT, finds someone else HOT

Suddenly his sugary smile looked satanic, his crimson maw looked

violent, and his gaze looked kind of probing. He was sticking to this tall

and voluptuous girl. She was wearing too much makeup and a cleavage-

showing blouse unlike me. We categorized girls like her as sluts back in

school not because they are hot, but because they seem so easily

available. Honestly, His gaze gave me the creeps. I despised him, and I

detested the institution. The only thing that I couldn't comprehended was,

he was with her and gazing at me all the time, why? Hands on her and

eyes on me why? Did I hate him so much because I was getting less

attention than her?

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HATE and DISGUST in the AIR

My dreams were turning into nightmares. I hated him. I hated the

seminary. What was wrong with me? Was it a not so accepted disease in

which you detest the whole lot as you see your dreams getting dusted. I

kept stealing a look at my watch for the never-ending lecture. I couldn’t

sit there a minute more. If XTCY, my elder cousin, approved I would

certainly go on a forty day medical break. God! Why is my first day of

college like this? I started marching towards the reception as soon as the

bell rang to inquire about the health check up for the foreign student’s.

While walking towards the reception, I saw the parking full of Scooty’s

and Maruti 800 highly contrasting the stylish and funky cars I once

imagined.

Two stout female office staff with heavy paunch finally zoomed to my

sight while I was waiting outside the reception since past half an hour

playing rattle snake on my phone.

“Ma’am I wanted to know about the gymkhana and the ID card?” I

inquired

“Talk in Marathi?” she grumbled

“I don’t know Marathi? I am an outstation…foreign student actually” I

sighed

She literally bullied me saying, “what foreign student, foreign students

you are doing, first go learn Marathi and only then will I talk to you”

I wanted to get over with the college formality, so I kept requesting her to

listen to me, in a way I was being dreadfully pushy. During the whole

conversation, she was meddling with some papers and hadn’t yet looked

at my face. Finally, she gave up “now don’t talk too much and go stand

in line”

How could foreign students be dumped in the line? Weren’t they the

privileged ones? When I the foreign students, was to be dumped in the

damn queue, why did the woman bullshit so much? I hated the place,

even more. I had to survive here for three years. I was a hostage, only for

three years …three years, damn!

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Anyway behind me was the loser, I said, was gorgeous and in front of me

is this black guy, blacker than black Gross! What the hell did he think he

was doing? Disgusting! How desperate? He was shagging! My first day

in college is this laid up legend, worse, I am the spectator. Out of shock I

turned around and unknowingly kept gazing at Gorgeous loser.

“What happened?” He asked casually settling the papers in his file

“Why does it matter to you?” I yelled with all my voice

And now he tilted his attention from the file to me and spoke in a

remarkably soft voice nearly contrasting my shout “You look concerned”

I looked down and then looked up directly into his eyes and mumbled in

a muffled voice “I am sorry! Concerned about someone shagging, are you

crazy?”

“You don’t need to be sorry” God! Boys can stoop to any extent to make

girls feel sad or snigger at their susceptibility.

I hate to admit, but with the revolt I was turning into, I was finally

enjoying the first thing. I was kind of enjoying this whole fight and

retorted this time with more confidence “Listen if you know grammar,

you know, sorry is an expression; you say when you can’t hear someone”

“Forget grammar, it’s time to stop getting shocked and accept Fergusson

college for what it is” he advised

Similar to each schoolgirl I too held a fantasy just that it’s fractured now.

Once upon a time OK, it’s not another Cinderella story, just...

FLASH BACK.. Hostel writing in my diary one

forty at hours of darkness

Dear diary

I wish a cherub turns her magical stick. I get freedom, fame and a long

file of fans following me in college. I am no angel, and I want no prince. I

want a demon with the right deportment. Boys with slithering muscle

disgust me … yuck!! God I know, I haven’t been the finest girl, but,

please make me date a boy who looks hot, plays soccer, bullies the sports

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car at a high-speed. Wow! Someone who can electrify me, as I am damn

difficult to amaze. My dream spell broke as my warden no less than a

baddie paraded in her white nightie, announcing with her twisted mouth,

to switch off the lights. It got fractured then, and it’s fractured yet again

on my first day of college.

I almost forgot Four years, but I haven’t forgotten my fantasy still. I can

never get my dream guy in Pune. No one can fit that place, not the uncle,

not the nigger and certainly not the Gorgeous Loser. Really, what a

vegetable this Gorgeous Asshole was? Why did god abuse look on him?

Dream guy, you must be kidding me. Pune is full of these shady uncles,

Forget friends; I can’t even make acquaintances here.

Even when I joined the school all my dreams that ma had created were

shattered just like this on the first day, but I didn’t give up that day. I

settled, survived and fought back. I realize the academy was ghastly and

if not all nerves some certainly wanted to fight and not give up. I always

wanted to be a runaway bride, but certainly not a runaway undergraduate.

EATING alone SUCKS

Finally by the end of the day, I was starving. All the wrath had scoffed

the grocery, in the indoors of my structure. For the first time, I was going

to eat a meal independently, but there is an opening for everything, so I

compromised eating alone on hunger. I toddled around just about the

college and saw my department students sitting parallel Fergusson

College, in this situate called Savera.

I started walking fast seeing the loser and the slut in the same situate.

They must be discussing some position, for all I care. I strolled further; I

considered calling Tinka, but realized that would just make me suffer

more. I just knew if I called her, I would talk less and cry more. Thinking

of the same, I marched further, now only focused on my craving.

Towards the end of the lane, I pierced this place, called Peppinos. I just

went and sat there. I didn’t know what to order and how to order. I just

knew that this was the place I would want to have my first

unaccompanied meal at.

Conclusion

Firstly, in my creative writing assignment I understood what it is, in the

form of introduction. Secondly, I went deeper into aspects like writer’s

tools, amateur writers, topics, and difficulty when you can’t write

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anything, noting down things. Thirdly, I comprehended indispensable

ingredients of creative writing like beginning, dialogue writing,

characterization and setting of scenes. Fourthly, I made a list of some

terrifically stimulating topics to write on. Lastly I wrote story-keeping

creative writing in mind, which I enjoyed a lot

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Dahl.R- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, United States, Penguin,

Putnam Inc., 1964.

Crystal.D- Words Words Words United States, Oxford University

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Lamott A. - Bird by Bird: Some instructions on writing and life,

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Morley D.- The cambrige Introduction to Creative Writing ,UK,

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