Creative writing help- Flash back within a flash back?? (1 Viewer)

[NWO]

So basically, i am prepared for all eventuallities. leave no stones unturned. Anways, i'm afraid theyll give a quote such as

"I am outside the door.
OR
"I felt expelled and exiled.."

Since, my creative has all of this, i believe. It's just that all of this happens 3 paragraphs into my writing. its just gonna mess up my structure. I was thinking of having 2 flash backs etc.

An hours earlier.......
They said they werent coming. Give a description of y

3 Years ago....
thats where ur complication goes and the plot etc.

So, any ideas lol? Just dont know where to put the quote. Cos at the beginning of my creative, its just descriptions of a place. atmosphere.

 

[madharris]

Just dont know where to put the quote.

Usually you use the quote or picture or whatever they give you as a major point in your story
So it needs to play some significance. E.g. if they gave you a picture such as: a little girl crying on the beach
You can't just be like "As I ran along the beach I saw a little girl crying, but I continued running, I just wanted to get away from this place"or something like that... you'd have to make the crying girl have some importance... (hahaha I've lost my creative writing 'skills' )

So you will need to change your creative a bit to adapt it
E.g. change the setting, change a charater, add something, etc...

 

[NWO]

... Then wer gonna fail..?

 

[NWO]

They give u like 4 quotes to choose from. One of them must fit it in lol. If it sets in a differentplace, ill bring it in through a flash back?

 

[madharris]

They give u like 4 quotes to choose from. One of them must fit it in lol. If it sets in a differentplace, ill bring it in through a flash back?

yeah that sounds good

 

[NWO]

I doubt they gonna specify it lmao. Last year, there were like pictures of children laughing together and one hanging from a tree. So, its pretty easy to bring it in. Oh and if they really specificy the setting: such as the crying girl on the beach, no one owuld do that, and if they did, its kinda hard to integrate lol. its not that easy to integrate by changing lots of elements in ur story lol. how did u go in ur 2012 hsc?

 

[madharris]

I doubt they gonna specify it lmao. Last year, there were like pictures of children laughing together and one hanging from a tree. So, its pretty easy to bring it in. Oh and if they really specificy the setting: such as the crying girl on the beach, no one owuld do that, and if they did, its kinda hard to integrate lol. its not that easy to integrate by changing lots of elements in ur story lol. how did u go in ur 2012 hsc?

haha Yeah I couldn't really think of a good example
I went pretty well
In my creative, originally in reading time I was like "shit I can't mould my creative to any of these pictures" but after thinking about it through part 1 and 2, I got it and moulded it pretty well I used the girls feet in the grass and it worked out pretty well (or so I think) . I just had to change a bit of my story where I made my protagonist go to a park (hence a the grass) and he was always going to meet a girl so it was all good

 

[Crobat]

Just dont know where to put the quote.

In a lot of the creative writing questions, it's not actually 100% necessary to use the quote in the creative writing piece, just to draw on the ideas in the quote. madharris is correct in saying it will need to have more significance in your story, so you will likely need to adapt to reflect the quote better in your writing (and therefore answer the question closely). You can simply add a line at the top of the story that says "Quote 1 - I felt expelled and exiled..." and then write a story without using it

Just bear in mind the wording of the question will impact on whether you're actually able to not use the quote explicitly or implicitly.

 

[NWO]

Crobat, i dont think its a GOOD idea at all at not using the quote lol. It says being ur story with a QUOTE. If you dont, the markers, who hate pre-planned stories, would certainly deduct marks without a second thought. What do you mean by? adding a line at the top of the story?

 

[Crobat]

Yeah as I recall, this question was asking you to specifically use a quote. But sometimes the question will be phrased like "use the following as a basis for an imaginative piece of writing" which means you can just infer the quote rather than explicitly use it (essentially treating the quote like you would with a picture stimulus). The line at the top is just purely for identification purposes like you would with a picture to show the marker which quote you are writing off. It's a technique that some students use to help them adapt, and also to avoid using really cliche and generic lines like the ones in that question, for example, which might not really fit in with their style of writing or general storyline. It's actually not all that uncommon although I do understand what you mean by saying it is a bit risky. In any case, it's what i did in my trials and would do if the question allowed for it and I didn't particularly like any of the quotes.

 

[NWO]

Yeah, ur right lol. There was a statement in the trails that was like 2 lines long. At first i was gonna actually use it in my story. Worst creative writing disaster ever. It only featured places and it was like 2 pages long gg. Now, my creative has a flash back and all aspects of belonging.
and seeing ur signature: i wrote my own thriller novel its just 20 pages long atm.. might work on it after hsc

 

[yasminee96]

Select ONE of the quotations as the opening for a piece of imaginative writing that explores
the challenges of belonging and not belonging.
‘I am outside the door.’
OR
‘We want to believe this is how it was . . .’
OR
‘I felt expelled and exiled . . .’


You had to actually use the quote as the beginning :/ I don't think you would've been able to just draw on the idea of it.
However, would we be able to just change the quote into 2nd or 3rd person rather than using it in 1st or however it is presented?
Would actually hate for it to be "use this as the opening" quote, but would probably prefer a quote that we have to draw ideas on, than a picture..

 

[Crobat]

Select ONE of the quotations as the opening for a piece of imaginative writing that explores
the challenges of belonging and not belonging.
‘I am outside the door.’
OR
‘We want to believe this is how it was . . .’
OR
‘I felt expelled and exiled . . .’


You had to actually use the quote as the beginning :/ I don't think you would've been able to just draw on the idea of it.
However, would we be able to just change the quote into 2nd or 3rd person rather than using it in 1st or however it is presented?
Would actually hate for it to be "use this as the opening" quote, but would probably prefer a quote that we have to draw ideas on, than a picture..

Yeah, and all of those quotes are terrible.

And yes, you'd need to do it sneakily though

http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=312232&p=6426063#post6426063

 

[yasminee96]

Yeah, and all of those quotes are terrible.

And yes, you'd need to do it sneakily though

http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=312232&p=6426063#post6426063

Agreed. Who starts a story with "I am outside the door." haha.
And oh! didn't notice that thread. Thanks