Workshop #1

Thursday was our first workshop where we did a critiquing of the short story, Harpers Night Out. I enjoyed being able to listen and see what other people thought of the story, and see how their opinions differed from my own opinion. Which some did but in most cases they were in places that I felt could be taking either way? 

I liked the thought of being able to read other writers work, as well as being able to just critique the work based mainly on what it is about and not the technicals like grammatical errors and spelling.  

I felt like almost everyone came prepared to give their thoughts on the story. I think for the most part these workshops should be fairly easy if all we have to do is write out a short critique twice a week, I mean it will take time and focus but once I get into it I think it will be fun! Which is what makes writing enjoyable in the long run, and well I guess anything? If you can’t have fun doing it then it really isn’t what you want to do. 

The good thing about being able to go through and see how other people write their stories, helps me to figure out how to form a story in a way that more people will be able to enjoy it, without having to feel like they are having to weed through a mess just to get to the meat of my story.

school blog #1

In this story we have two main characters Georgie the orderly, and the narrator who has only been working in the ER for three months.

  I enjoyed this story for the most part, and it took me rereading it for a second time to understand it a little more. Although I still have a hard time understanding the ending, I mean the part where the guy who knew the narrator from before comes into play, Hardee is his name. I mean it just seemed that he shows up with no warning at all but he seems to play a bigger part than what part of the story lets you in on. Also the narrator has such a poor choice in friends, you have Georgie who is a pill popper moreover the narrators supplier, even though it doesn't look like he could remember giving or selling them to him he's so doped up, and then there is Hardee. Hardee was drafted into the army but went AWOL, and was fleeing the country to Canada to escape, and to make matters worse Georgie was encouraging him and trying to figure out how to get him there. Thats all that was given in respects to Hardee. Georgie on the other hand is a different story, this part confused me as well, when the guy with the hunting knife is his eye comes in, no one panics no one rushes him into the O.R, or give him something to ease his pain I mean it almost seems as if no one wants to touch him, just incase he dies. but back to Georgie, when they get everyone lined up for the surgery they send Georgie in to "prep" this guy Terrance Webber so that the skilled surgeon could take the knife out. I'm not sure if I read this right or not but "But when Georgie came in from prepping the patient-from shaving the patient's eyebrow and disinfecting the area around the wound, and so on-he seemed to be holding the hunting knife in his left hand." just thought of having someone who has no skill in the field of surgery, no knowledge of what could possibly be damaged inside Terrance's brain, along with the fact that he is dealing with a large amount of prescription pills that he has no idea what they are. Any who to  me I'd want to know that if I was in Terrance's spot, that I would have a better skilled doctor taking care of me and not the orderly who happens to be tripping out on pills.