MicroFiction and Point and Line

            Surprisingly, I’m finding Microfiction or Fiction writing in general, harder than poetry.  It’s pretty hard for me to think of stuff outside the box like most of the authors do.  The one thing I would like to point out from our Fiction Packet 2 was a “Point and Line” exert.  On page 12 of the pdf she writes,

“I count on the fact that in another thirty minutes this episode will end and I’ll walk back onto a street where nobody is speaking to me, and yet I would never call it silent."

            For some reason, this stood out to me.  She took the therapy session and put it into a time frame of episode, or the average length that a tv show is.  She then says how she will not be spoken too but she wouldn’t call that silence.  Since when you’re not talking to someone, a person usually still has thoughts going on inside there head which can feel very loud to you.  It was astounding to me how she took such a simple time frame, thoughts, and action, and made it into something completely different and interesting.  The words she uses are so simple yet contain such complex thoughts.

            Below, you will see my first fiction writing.  It is not very good, but I’m working on it.  It’s challenging, nonetheless. 

            “The air is fresh.  The darkness swallows.  It is almost eight o’clock but is as still as early morning.  The light still runs on, telling when to stop, slow, or go. Opening it either gives hope or the ‘feeling of a waste of time’.  Enclosed: excitement and anticipation, or maybe on just desperation. As it cracks open the words allow for her thoughts to feel real, and become real.  The quiet and small will be sacred, but the noisy, tall, and endless is dreamt.”

            Now, this is the idea I was getting across.  A girl, living in a small town, opening a fortune cookie, hoping that it will give her the inspiration she needs to go and live in a big city and accomplish only the things she has ever dreamt about.