During the proceedings of researching John’s story, some of the hardest problems have been as follows: Distancing myself from the story, so as not to let my personal opinions shine through into the story. This was made increasingly more difficult when one of the central characters of the story announced that she refused to give her side of the story to a ‘bitch’ like myself, and that I could write ‘whatever the fuck’ I wanted. After informing John of this conversation, he resigned to be as honest and unbiased as possible so as not to jeopardise the legitimacy of my research. This incident also contributed to the decision to write the dramatization from John’s point of view.
Deciding on a suitable time frame in which to focus the creative piece was another issue that arose quite early on in my research. Although the timeline of the couple’s relationship spans 3 years, majority of those days were extremely repetitive and routine. This being said, the 3 significant events are spread throughout the timeline, creating the task of finding a way to span through them all. It wasn’t until the topic of ‘framing’ was discussed in my week 9 lecture, that I decided my story could be adapted to fit a convoluted timeline. This would enable me to overcome my personal problems writing transitions in time, as well as enable me to skip forwards and backwards and cover the majority of scenes I had endeavored to include.
One final problem I have been wrestling with throughout this research process is the question of whether or not my final piece will be one that readers actually want to read. And whether the content will be deemed too controversial for publisher’s interest. This is a problem that I will be researching and resolving in next week’s blog post.
Deciding on a suitable time frame in which to focus the creative piece was another issue that arose quite early on in my research. Although the timeline of the couple’s relationship spans 3 years, majority of those days were extremely repetitive and routine. This being said, the 3 significant events are spread throughout the timeline, creating the task of finding a way to span through them all. It wasn’t until the topic of ‘framing’ was discussed in my week 9 lecture, that I decided my story could be adapted to fit a convoluted timeline. This would enable me to overcome my personal problems writing transitions in time, as well as enable me to skip forwards and backwards and cover the majority of scenes I had endeavored to include.
One final problem I have been wrestling with throughout this research process is the question of whether or not my final piece will be one that readers actually want to read. And whether the content will be deemed too controversial for publisher’s interest. This is a problem that I will be researching and resolving in next week’s blog post.
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