Short Story Rerflection

Title: In the Eyes of A Killer
Author: Clarissa D. Sepulveda
Genre: Suspense, Adult Fiction
Pages: 8
Mentor Texts: There aren’t any books that helped make the short story. But through watching movies and reading books I’ve grown to love horror, suspense and gore genres. So I decided to write my short story based on one of those genres and I knew gore and horror would be a little too much and so I decided for my short story to have suspense. Since I didn’t want my story to seem like those original suspense stories, I decided to have every part of my story be like the opposite of the regular cliché of a horror or suspense story. For example, rather than having the father abuse the mother, I had the mother abuse the father.
Audience: Teens and adults
Writing Process: In all I had 3 drafts for my short story; all typed. On the first draft, I was not able to complete the story for it had already been 6 pages long so Mr. Staff allowed me to turn in my first draft as the 6 pages. While writing the first draft I would write a paragraph or so and read off what I had written to make sure everything made sense and had good grammar. I also had Adam revise it for me and he made some grammar correction and gave me ideas on how to write the rest of my story.
On my second draft I was able to complete it making the story 8 pages long. I also made many grammar changes. While writing my second draft, I would edit my story several times, changing words, paragraphs and changing the way sentences where written. In the end I had Ms. Staff revise my short story, which she gave me several questions and words of advice to make my story even better.
On my third draft I didn’t have much to change. There were only grammar mistakes, but the only thing I struggled through was if I should let the reader know what happened to Sean’s mother or if I should leave them questioning like Ms. Staff did. I also wanted to make it a little more scary and have a little more gore in the end.
Publishing Process: For my short story I would like make it look like a chapter book and minimize the size. I would keep the font at times new roman, 12 point font. And I think ill just put it in the classroom library.