Writing Journal-Assignment 3

My process simply involved recalling a certain Roman shopping trip that had happened recently; I definitely thought it seemed like the perfect anecdote for the fable formula. The moral is “good things come to those who wait and preserve in times of trial.” Believe me, searching for the right pair of boots is a trying endeavor. I don’t know how much of a surprise my reversal is. I think the reader can sense it building to a sort of “happily ever after” type of ending. It’s cliché, but I think it works. I didn’t actually return to Machiavelli’s text during the writing process. I just tried to follow the formula that we learned during our in class exercise. The most challenging part of the assignment, for me, was maintaining a certain element of surprise. I really liked how Machiavelli’s story had lots of twists in the plot. I would like to better emulate that if I were to write another fable. I think writing this story will help me to think/construct about my action points better in my next piece.