Perhaps I lack a sense of creativity! Who knows, I just can't help but feeling self conscious about my writing. With history it is easier because you are arguing a point and have evidence to back up everything you say. In creative writing I don't have that net to fall back on so it's all on me...
Hopefully my end product will turn out better than I am expecting, but I think the work shops will help me when I am exposed to other people's opinions about my story before the final copy is due.
I thought I would include a couple pictures so if anyone is reading this you can see the sort of situations I am drawing my inspiration from...
Thanks for the pictures, Todd! It's easy to see the relationship of that boat to the swells and how the swells don't seem to stop. The challenge, then, is to make readers see what the picture so clearly reveals. I think you've done a good job of that in your workshop draft. Readers definitely got the sense that there were many problems and an unrelenting sea. Creative writing is, indeed, a challenge. We read stories that flow almost by magic from start to end--in other words, some writers make it all look so "easy," but getting to that point is anything but easy. Keep at the writing!
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