Intro to "The Dark and Unknown"

For this assignment, our class was to practice what we had learned about writing interesting and varied sentences as well as adding in colorful language. We were also expected to use a mix of simple, compound, complex, and compound complex sentences. We were given a story outline titled “Janet and Brad’s Excellent Adventure” and then were to put verbs and descriptive words into the blanks to create an interesting story with great word choice. I originally wrote my piece on February 7, 2009. When I first read the outline of the story, I immediately pictured Janet and Brad’s adventure occurring on a stormy night, therefore when I wrote my piece I included details that described this scene and titled my piece, “The Dark and Unknown”. It was interesting to read my classmates writing and to find that many of them actually turned this piece into a heat wave or a different scenario. It was fun to see how a collection of writers chose to change certain details or add in new events that created completely different story. My piece illustrates a dark, stormy night in which “the couple’s unpredictable vehicle had chosen this chilling night to stall along a dark and twisting highway.” I feel that my writing in this piece has varied sentence structure and word choice that shows my ability to describe in my writing. These strengths found in “The Dark and Unknown” show my ability to write effectively.