Intro to Fiction Blog

Earlier this week I was assigned to read the Introduction to Fiction. The author didn’t start off by dissecting what fiction is; he started readers off with a story first before we could examine the elements of fiction which gave me an idea of fiction because everyone may not know what fiction is so I thought that was helpful. I thought the reading was very informational and understanding by giving us definitions to a lot of the important words and also important dates too. As I was reading I became distracted and my mind started drifting somewhere else it was a hard task to stay focus because I thought there was too much information on fiction and this type of reading can only keep a person attention span for so long but besides that what I did get out of the reading was history on where elements of fiction came from for example a novel original name is “novella” and it came from Italy back in the middle ages. The reading also gave examples such as like a lil story to explain some of the elements for better understanding and being that the book is dated helped also. In all, I thought the reading gave a board idea of fiction.