<p>Writing a fictional story for common app essay?
Is that a bad idea? Be honest. I know I've posted a billion threads on my essay but i think I finalized the "topic of my choic" being what era would I lke to live in and why? In order to reveal my personality for example if I picked the 80s I would describe the fashion and go into my love of ffashion for one of the reasons. In writing this essay, can I take a fictional presny tense approach . As in me speaking as if I am really in the time machine and really there, or is it advised to avoid that?</p>
<p>Please reply and be honest. All opinions, advice, and contructive critisicm are welcomed</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think it’s a great idea. Colleges want to see your writing skills as well as learn about you as a person through your essay. Sure, a fictional story will show off your writing skills. But if it’s fictional, how much can it really say about you, aside from creativity? Not much, imo. I’d go a different route.</p>
<p>i dont think i agree with americanslang. They’re smart people on the other end, i know friends who’ve written fictions and have made it to ivy league schools. One of them made a play script out of her essay, all fiction it was and is now at UPenn. Its all about how its done. I think its a great approach, and would probably make for a very memorable essay if its written well.
As for how much does fiction speak of its writer, people construct images of authors from their fictional literature all the time. I mean, just from this info i can tell she’s (A) creative, (B) a risk-taker, (C) has a particular taste in fashion hence has a personality and isn’t dull… Its like my lit professor says, “you can write a book on the author from a book of the author”… My opinion, with no disrespect to americanslang’s, GO FOR IT! Just write it super well, so it’ll be memorable. It’ll def be unique</p>
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