With my midterm writing assignment looming up quickly, I am starting to panic just a bit. I've begun and scratched at least three or four different stories. My biggest fear is that submitting an assignment to be read and criticized by my classroom, full of people who are kind enough, but certainly don't have the same belief in things that I do (happy endings, eternal marriages, loving Heavenly Father, and the like), I feel like the only thing I'll hear is that, "It wasn't believable. Things never work out that way, happy endings don't exist."
While I don't plan on writing a clear happy ending in (it's hard to have one without seeming corny in a short story), I do plan on not making it a sad one. For example, I don't plan on writing a story from the point of view of a serial killer or a man holding a gun in his hand. I don't really like describing blood lust and *ahem* OTHER kinds of lust in my stories, because I really don't like reading them. I don't include cuss words, and I don't include other things I wouldn't want my kids to see and hear.
So far we've read two stories from students in my class, and while two is far from the majority, I have a pretty good indication that I'm going to be quite unique in my non-cussing, killing, lusting kind of writing. This should be interesting.
Another fear...being as emotional as I can be (and those who know me best are rolling their eyes right now as they remember a time when a simple word or phrase has reduced me to tears), I am scared to death that I'll cry the entire time they are critiquing me. And that would basically be mortifying. So I think I'll just sit by the door so I can make a more dignified entrance if I have to...
