Capstone Chaos

      It is about that time of year when our Capstone projects have been finished and have been handed in to get that grade that could make or break our semester. Some people had a very calm and stress free time while working on their project but others like myself had many complications. The process of writing a story is no joke and i will now appreciate the works of literature much more than I did before.
       At first I came up with the idea to follow the cliche "chick flick" love story and base my story of Nicholas Sparks' The Notebook. I wrote about a beautiful young white girl who was of the upper class and had everything you could imagine, but she was in love with a handsome young black man who was of the lower class and worked very hard to help his family make ends meet. Like the notebook it was a constant struggle for the young girl to get her parents to accept her wishes. My story was based in the 1950's the time of the powerful civil rights movement.
      After I had started to write that story i realized it was going to be very difficult and i changed it up. I decided to write about a young girl who lived with her parents and traveled to Georgia every summer with them. Everything was going great until one day the mother suddenly collapsed while they were out to eat and it turns out she had cancer. This was a devastating experience because the father had grown up with his wife, someone he had learned to love with every fiber of his body.
       I had finally finished that story but i wasn't happy with the result. I then decided to ditch the love story concept and write a story from the guidelines from my favorite show The Following. I wrote about Joe Carroll's theories of being a serial killer and his obsession with women. I believed this turned out to be a very good example of my work, but it wasn't up to par of the directions that were given to us. I needed to add a climax and solution to the many obstacles that would soon arouse.
         Finally i came up with my final product. I used some of the same wording and ideas from my previous story but there were also many changes. I wrote from the point of view from a serial killer and his constant struggle with not only the people around him but with his own mental issues. The ending is one no one would ever expect. I won't give away too much, but I hope you enjoy hearing about the rest of my story during my presentation!