In revising my short story I found some good criticism from my fellow classmates and instructor. I think that their perspective helped me to view the story in a new light. When I looked at the exercises assigned for Week Six I choose to focus on 89 Opening Up Your Story and 93 Magnifying the Conflict. To open up the story I chose to add a statement of "Five years from now I'll be...." I altered it a little to fit my story for the 10 year reunion and the dreams of 4 highschool students. To magnify the conflict I added some more details about the time in jail and about some of the pranks the 4 guys were known for in high school.
I think these exercises did offer a new perspective to my story. They made me think of all the different possibilities this story has and the many different options the plot, conflict, and characters could have taken. When I start something I have a hard time changing the vision I had, but I think these exercises helped me to at least think about the different options even though for most of the story I chose to leave it how it was.
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