My writing processes are normally functional, but this semester was definitely a struggle. I am writing a fable that can sort of relate to how it went.
"There was once a Pacman master, and normally she can handle the little orbs that try to eat her, because they are predictable. She sets a plan from the beginning of the game so that she can achieve her goals. She knows how to avoid being stuck in the middle of the orbs and how to handle them as she collects all her pebbles for her character. One day, this Pacman master was having a really rough day, and to make it all worse, she reached a really tough level. The Pacman master was really happy she reached this special level, and she bragged like crazy. She even had a plan set out because she heard it can get out of hand. When she started the game, there were five monster orbs that were chasing her character, which was nothing. A few seconds after the game went on and her character was collecting the pebbles, more monster orbs started appearing. There were so many, she ended up losing her first life. After the loss of her first life, her computer froze. The level restarted and she tried to master this level again, before the monster orbs got to as much as they had been in the first level. She then got a little more pebbles before losing the second round because so many orb monsters appeared. After many rounds, the Pacman master was determined to win. This was the 14th round, and she had had enough. She concocted a plan in physical form that she would follow as she should. When she started the level, she was prepared to win. She followed her plan, and she won. There was no technology problems or level problems, and this was the worst version of the round she had played of this level." In a way, this story could relate to how my semester went, as I had a plan of how I would attend class and finish my homework while working my two jobs. Unfortunately, many family issues had come up which threw a huge break into my plan, but I was determined. I finished my formal assignments on time, and I am working towards having my informal assignments done. Although this has hurt my score, I am determined to master this course. I had to create a plan and write down how I would accomplish my goals in order to follow them, through the advice of Mr. Mangini. I hope by the end of this semester, I will master all of what I tried to all semester long. Authorship and ownership sound pretty similar in their ways. You "author" your writing and you "own" your text. Although it seems that way, there is a challenge with the words itself. Authoring a text would mean that you are writing out your ideas, thoughts, realities through your words. How those words are interpreted after they are written is up to the reader. Even when putting the effort to use language that could try to imitate how the author is personally feeling as he or she is writing their piece; the reader will not understand that text the same way. In that same way, the reader may have an idea that would build off the work(s) of the author and create a new piece. A form that would replicate that theory is fan-fiction or a re-genre project that would build off the works of the author but have a completely different interpretation or a whole new story line altogether. Ownership is a way of claiming the work as their own. When writing, is the idea really owned by you? When the text is complete and read by the individual who did not write it, is their interpretation really owned by them?
Fan-fiction is when a work of an author is recreated in some way that has the idea of the author, but is not the same interpretation as the author. This genre of writing challenges those notions of authorship and ownership through the perception/interpretation of the reader. When viewing authorship and ownership, an example could be "Man in the High Castle." The idea of living in a Communist and Fascist world came from the historical views of Hitler and the Japanese. Even though Hitler and the Japanese came up with a way of ruling the world, another individual came up with a story line for a television show on how that world would look. The story line of the television show does differ in some of the opinions, but it is rather similar. Now, since the idea was originally conceived by Hitler and the Japanese, can the creator of that show take claims on his or her authorship or ownership? Can the creator really say that he or she authored/wrote that show, or that he or she even owns that show? Or is the author and owner of that idea Hitler and the Japanese? Moving forward, that example could apply to the "original" creator of that show, and the fans who wrote fiction that built off of it. Would the fans really own their work if the idea of that show came from the creator, and they only "authored" it? In this way, it sets a diverse complexity as to who really has authorship or ownership over their pieces, especially with the modern day writing diversity. |
AuthorHi, my name is Melanie. I am now 20 years old, and I am majoring in Computer Science. This is my latest blog for my Composition II class. Archives
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