Choosing, learning, and some Daily Discoveries

“What to do? What to do?” I thought to myself. I have so many possibilities, they are practically endless. I like novels, so I thought that maybe I would just do a genre within novels, but then again, how predictable would that be? The Hemingway fan talking about novels- groundbreaking, I know.

I began to brainstorm: Newspaper article, friendly letter, horoscopes? I came up with some interesting ideas, but like most intriguing things, my idea was inspired by an interesting and rather emotional, late-night conversation with my roommate, Carrie.

We were talking about Pixar and Disney movies, and how emotional they are. Up, Lion King, Bambi- all tearjerkers. We then came across the famous Peter Pan, and how I heard it was a fable and I wasn’t sure if the fable was how Peter Pan is a death angel for kids, so then the lesson was to never follow anyone to Neverland. Then I heard of another one based on the Broadway show Finding Neverland that basically says: don’t worry everyone you love that passes on will go to Neverland, where they will be happy and never grow up. I know, that hit a sad note for me too.

This time of year is rather difficult for me, many of the deaths that have impacted me the most, happened within this month, in honor of the Neverland theory, I chose fable. On top of that, I also think they are a rather sweet concept, “let’s teach kids to be good and knowledge people at a young age,” and then conventions taught me how yes, they may all be similar, but they are not all the same, which made me fully understand that that leaves a plethora of room for imagination, and I have seem some sweet ones, but some rather violent ones. Thus the choice of fables was made.

This is the story of how I chose fable for my genre and how sincere, late night conversations and small discoveries can sometimes lead to a small mental pain killer, and how it will make you realize that life is life and it moves fast. It doesn’t always have to be what you expect, kind of like conventions.

Look at me, with my first order of thinking blogging. This week- on top of learning more about genres and how they depend on conventions not rules and also on the audience's expectations and reactions, and on top of these different order of thinkings and although being completely opposites they almost need each other, I learned that if you dig just a little deeper you learn much more than you think you did. I wonder if that last thought counts as first or second order thinking...