Concerns I had during the creative draft were that my style often just did not match Junot Diaz's. One example of this was how in class we tried to take a passage of his that we were drawn to, and rewrite our passage in the same way. I just couldn't make his way of writing match mine. At the same time, we do have some matching styles. It was kind of easy for me not to give any personal details about myself, and dive right into what the story really meant, because I always felt like introducing your topic was kind of a chore.
One part of his story that I couldn't get to match my own was the fantasy he had in Aguantando. I tried putting it into my story, and it just didn't feel very natural. One metaphor that I made in class for this feeling was it was like trying to fit into a really tight pair of clothes: You can force it, but it doesn't want to happen. I ended up just forcing a fantasy into my piece.
In addition to this, I had to kind of force myself to have repeating settings. What I mean by this is how in a lot of different stories, Junior was sitting on a couch, sometimes with his mom, reflecting or feeling bad. So even though it didn't always exactly pan out this way, I tried to make a repeating scene of me having dinner with my family, and not having anything to talk to them about, except some argument.
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