I don't know how it happened, I think I stopped stressing so much over it and just got something written down even if I wasn't too keen. First drafts are never great and this is what I needed to remember. My first draft of anything is no where near as good as my final piece.
My story still has a long way to go and I'm still not sure on the ending or some of the characters, but that's ok!
One thing I have noted so far is that I need to add more description and depth to both my characters and setting. I also still have a lot of plot gaps that need to be filled in order for the story to make sense.
At the moment the main symbol to my story is the snow globe which I really enjoy writing about, it gives the story a meaning even though I'm not so sure on where it is going.
I hope that by the beginning of September I can fill all the gaps and power through the word count before I go back to Uni and show my tutor what I have done.
Just last week I was in Edinburgh and I saw a open mic poetry/comedy show during Fringe Festival in an underground pub. It was funny and very clever. One man's poetry stood out to me as he was literally retelling parts of my dissertation idea. I am focusing mine on social media and clean eating and how this is taking over society. This man was also talking about social media and how people only present the 'good parts' of their life and not the reality. He used Facebook as a simile of someone's ego and I found this interesting and will definitely be looking into this more in my own writing. He also said how we are not meeting/seeing the real person on social media we are simply only touching a glass screen of their 'face', also interesting. I found it very odd how we randomly went to this open mic night (not planned) and a man stood up and helped me out with my own dissertation - THANK YOU!
Sian.X
