The Advancement of Depth of Your Creative Writing

Over the span of English 1110, with the use of media and storytelling concepts introduced to me, I have grown to become more accepting of more “current” writing. With the use of its many possible utilities in order to enhance the reader’s perspective and insight into the world that is being drawn out in front of their eyes, it always yields a high reward. Via the use of non-traditional “objects” placed inside the text, you are able to guide readers toward the story you want them to see. The storytelling practices introduced in class assignments help to improve the depth of the script being written. The most obvious idea and topic that should be brought up was the digital storytelling project. While it was my first time positing fictional content for a public blog, it was not the first time for me ever writing a blog. In my past, I have made blogs that were very instructional based. The writing itself was not for a reputable blog site, but a “private” one man army blog. By this, I mean that I wrote blogs for my own enjoyment. While wrote them, I was very straightforward with the things that included. I made sure to only include the bare necessities so that readers would be able to get in, and out of the reading quickly. With the digital story telling project, I was introduced to the idea of including hyper-linking, photos, and sounds to the blog, in order to let the reader enjoy their stay(at that particular posting). One big difference that I have always noticed (but this class helped to reinforce) was the straight difference between print medium and a digital one. With print, unless the author/publisher decided to include pictures (which many books/articles rarely do for formal writing), you are given “full control” on how you perceive what you are reading. This gives the reader an extremely large probability of misreading something and immediately blaming the author for it. This class has helped to teach (again, mainly through the digital storytelling project) that the author/blog writer can guide the reader towards the thought process that they would prefer, while still allowing them to make up the details along the way. For me, that was the best part of the class. With the knowledge gained, you no longer have to be general with your writing. Given the power of “guidance”, you can show the reader, rather than tell them what to think. This was a very useful tool as we wrote for the rest of the class. The community of readers involved in the reading of the digital story project would mainly have to be either “tweens” or young adults. Due to the nature of it, along with the writing style and massive amounts of “other” digital media, those would be the people that would enjoy it more. While the digital element does help with grasping the topic, for some older readers, a little flair here and there is a nice touch, but too much more starts to take away from the story. In regards to the paper that I wrote for the final project, the targeted audience would be much different. It would mainly consist of an older and more mature group of people. I say this because while there might not be any “digital” element, or even any kind of visual portions, it does take into account the different kinds of writing tools that we developed in class. By way of introducing certain class assignments that oriented itself with the theme of storytelling via digital medias, we were able to grow our own writing. In the end, summing up all the characteristics of the engagement of media, coupled with the storytelling practices within class assignments, the topics of this class have proven themselves to be vital and imaginative skills which can be used in my future writings. These skills will help to better the writing with which the topic will be located on. I believe that these skills are definitely helpful, and I look forward to using them in the future.