Reading and Writing Reflection #10

Oct. 9/12

Reading Reflection # 5
Phoenix Confederation
Desiree Henry
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I realize this is a little bit unconventional but this weekend I spent my free time reading over my own book. I didn’t really read anything else so I can really write this about anything else, sorry.

I’m sure I could go on forever about my personal, or self to text, connections to this book, it’s mine after all. My main text-to-self connection, and I’ll only use one, would be to the male main character James, yes I talk about him a lot. James is, in a lot of ways, my version of a perfect man. My boyfriend Dev is also very much like James as well. I guess Jamie is also much like my Dev since the entire time I’ve been writing this book I’ve been with him.

A so what for my book was freedom from affliction and dictatorship. All the books I write have that sort of basic theme, a corrupt government, an evil queen; you know, “the norm”. I actually don’t know why I enjoy both reading and writing books with that general theme, I guess it’s just my thing. My main character Shawna was born inside the “royalty” per say, of the confederation but ever since her boyfriend Jasper was killed, she has rebelled against it. Making her a perfect target for James and his rebellion, but for the first time James sees Shawna he falls for her. The book is really the two of them living through the rebellion together on the front lines, whether it’s in the war or the negotiation they work together to free their world from the corrupt ruling of the confederation.

Hopefully you can look for Phoenix Confederation on the shelves late next year, until then though I hope you can enjoy imagining.

Desi Henry

Writing Reflection #3

I know this is a little late. I just remembered that I had missed the class where we had started the memoirs and there for had nothing to write about for this week.

I think my memoir writing went pretty well. I chose to stay in the classroom because I find it a lot more comfortable to write in a chair the sitting in the hallway somewhere so this makes more sense for me. The class room is pretty quiet anyway. I get my best work done in quiet spaces when there’s nothing to distract me or sidetrack me; I have ADD so that isn’t very hard.

            I was neutral on this form I guess, the pros and cons balance each other out. For the pros I would say I really enjoyed the visual aspect of this form of writing, I’m a designer so it was nice to have something I’m particularly good at. As for the cons I would say it would have to be the word count. It felt very short to me since I’m normally the long winded author type with the nice long novel; six words was a little tight. Although I will admit it brought out the poet in me, something I haven’t seen in quite a while.

            I think I learnt that when necessary I can condense my writing without losing too much of the meaning. I also realized that I’m a bit to critical when it come to my photography; just a little bit of a perfectionist.

            As I said before the hardest part was condensing my writing and still making sure it had meaning. The most rewarding part on the other hand would have been seeing the pictures and the words come together so nicely. It really wasn’t until I seen that that I realized what a great writing form this is.

            As for my blogging I wouldn’t say that’s coming easily. I’ve never been very good at keeping a journal so the hardest part for me would just be finding the time to post. I guess my favorite part would be the community of it. I like the quick and easy connection to all these other talented writers. In the next while my goal is just to post more and truly personalize my blog.