Self Reflective Essay

Collage. In the beginning I questioned what exactly we could do with a collage, and suddenly I was swamped with a billion very different forms of collage, which I watched, mouth agape, at how they could craft very original and shocking narratives.

I had no idea how I would do it. I love surrealism, I love horror, and I love large, famous fictions, so I decided to combine the three for my Mythos workshop. I took a surrealistic way about it; I changed nothing that I added to the collage (which ended up biting me in the ass, haha) and I made sure to keep my work as creepy and unnerving as possible.

I felt that I met that second goal, since I caused some people to be afraid of my work (and one to curse me; thank you Rachel!) so I am not disappointed in what I have done thus far; i'm quite proud of it!

One thing that caught me off-guard was Mejia telling me that I am a good collage fiction writer; I am one who loves compliments, but it frightened me because I worry that if I already show skill, then I have a million more chances to screw up in front of everyone (and everyone knows how narcissistic I am) so I have been even more on guard and will be for this next half of the semester.

I feel like my work is improving even more than it ever has before. I actually feel like a writer now instead of a student attempting to create a piece of fiction.