Short stories are mainly a few pages written about a moment in one's life. In Cathedral, The entire story really only takes place in a few hours. Even though we learn about past events in the lives of the wife, husband, or Robert, they are not actually happening during the course of the story. Short stories are big in acad right now. Our Spanish Photostory project is essentially a short story--15 sentences about something important in our lives. I'm wrote about the first time I saw my baby sister, but in English I'm gonna have to write ANOTHER story... and I'm pretty sure I've exhausted the baby sister storyline. Even if our stories are fictional, I feel like I'd need SOMETHING true to use. Then it boils down to... What one moment would I use if I had to write a short story? Would I pick the most important one? The most vividly remembered one? Happiest? Saddest? Scariest? What if I don't even knoowww which moment can get categorized as "most important" or whatever...?
Clearly I used this as my What If? because it really 100% is a question... So far blogging hasn't really cleared up anything or pointed at any answers...
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Melanie,
I loved your blog! I was thinking about this a lot, because for my spanish photostory I chose my experience in the slums of Costa Rica, and that was such a life-changing experience, but is that what I would have picked if my life was to be captured in a short moment? What are the moments that make our lives? maybe it's the moments like a first kiss or our first Christmas, or when we got an A on a test we studied really hard for. Or perhaps it's when we were dumped for the first time, or when we felt the most alone. What are the moments that change our lives? That's the question that's getting at. I really enjoyed your insights :).
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