Fiction

During the fiction unit of our class, we were given the opportunity to write about fiction and to create our own fiction. On one hand, As English majors, we usually write about fiction, so that was not much of a change. I enjoyed the fiction stories we read, but I do not think that writing about the stories was as fun as creating our own fictional stories because I am used to writing about fiction and I know what to look for when writing about fiction. Thus, I found writing about fiction much easier than writing my own fiction. On the other hand, during my time at CSUN, I have never really been given the opportunity to create our own fiction, so having the opportunity to write my own fictional story was out of the norm. At first, I was a little apprehensive about writing my own story because I did not know how to begin. Luckily, we were given prompts to begin our short stories, which eased the experience. I felt that knowing how to write about fiction informed the way I wrote my own fiction because I took some of the elements of fiction that I had written about and attempted to incorporate them in my story. From this experience, I learned that students should know how to identify the elements of fiction and write about them in the form of an essay in order to learn how to use those same elements in their own fictional pieces. Students should learn the basics of fiction before they write their own fiction. I really liked the prompts we used in class. I think I would probably provide my students with fun prompts as well.