Infinite Journeys

     For the course, “Journey in Literature” by Prof. Pittmann, we participated in the 2018 UPRRP Literary Contest which this year was the 51 st the university has done. It was a very good experience to write for a contest since I have never been to a literary contest. I was able to enjoy writing and really focus on my idea. I wrote a short story on a previous course and finally, I was able to make a sequel. I have never found a passion for writing until now. I loved writing short stories just as I live them in my head. Mostly I write sci-fi related content. I can really picture all the actions of the story in my head and I   can write paragraphs fluently. I now understand how you can express basically worlds of contents using only words. When the professor told us I felt pumped to do it but also nervous about what I’m was going to write. I learned to let the fingers flow and write. Firstly I just lookup up what was a short story and I found on Google Dictionar...

     In the course “Journey in Literature” we have expanded the meaning of journey and to be able to understand we did various assignments like the journal, life compass, and multigenre project. In the journal assignment, I was able to develop my informal writing, we were given a free space to be able to write our internal thoughts and emotions. The professor always said to “go for the jugular” and to “let go of my hand” which was a different approach to most of the written exercises I have taken. It was difficult for me at the beginning to write about my thoughts, since they were very rapidly changing, and my emotions/feelings. The journal exercise had a learning curve to it. In the start, I was very logical and almost writing like essays but through the exercise, I felt more comfortable and freer to write without any logical format. I now know how much we think and how many unconscious actions our brains keep up doing. Writing directly what I felt and what though...