This page houses my Life Memoir final product entitled the Big Bad Wolf.
This paper took a lot out of me to write, what happened marked me, I will never forget the Halloween of 2015. I hope that others can learn from my mistakes and never allow something like this to happen again, specifically in a college setting. I decided not to say plainly what happened here because of the sensitive nature of the story and some names have been changed or shuffled around. I wish I never wrote this story because I wish it never happened. I found that it helped tremendously to write through the actual events for mental clarity and processing what happened.
This paper went through many iterations, the first was fairly close to the final product however the ending was somewhat lacking. I have a post reflecting on my initial process here. My very first (super rough draft) I wrote as a blog post which can be viewed here. With the finalized product I decided to make the ending more cohesive and wrap around to the first scene for more clarity. Process wise I would just write and write until I couldn't write anymore, often with a cup of black coffee so I could focus for longer sessions. I have less drafts than the Research paper because I wanted it to be over if that makes any sense. The memories associated with this story where incredibly painful to me; it was hard to come back and revise subsequent drafts but I felt that this story really needed to be shared. There is a brief blurb about my process that I blogged about here. Thank you so much Dr. Mangini for your feedback, without you the final product would not look as it does today, cheers.
This paper took a lot out of me to write, what happened marked me, I will never forget the Halloween of 2015. I hope that others can learn from my mistakes and never allow something like this to happen again, specifically in a college setting. I decided not to say plainly what happened here because of the sensitive nature of the story and some names have been changed or shuffled around. I wish I never wrote this story because I wish it never happened. I found that it helped tremendously to write through the actual events for mental clarity and processing what happened.
This paper went through many iterations, the first was fairly close to the final product however the ending was somewhat lacking. I have a post reflecting on my initial process here. My very first (super rough draft) I wrote as a blog post which can be viewed here. With the finalized product I decided to make the ending more cohesive and wrap around to the first scene for more clarity. Process wise I would just write and write until I couldn't write anymore, often with a cup of black coffee so I could focus for longer sessions. I have less drafts than the Research paper because I wanted it to be over if that makes any sense. The memories associated with this story where incredibly painful to me; it was hard to come back and revise subsequent drafts but I felt that this story really needed to be shared. There is a brief blurb about my process that I blogged about here. Thank you so much Dr. Mangini for your feedback, without you the final product would not look as it does today, cheers.
These are my many drafts for my memoir. It is by no means perfect and I wish I had more to to really flesh out the story, a lot is left unsaid here.
- Life-Choice Memoir Draft I
- Life-Choice Memoir Draft II
- Life Choice Memoir Final Draft