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He just shrugged but I got the impression he was thinking about going along.

Writer's notes

I chose to do a version of Agafya because I liked the idea in the story and knew instantly
what it could be rewritten as. Also, it was one of the first ones we studied on the first day

school and it kind of stuck in my head.

I was very confused about how to go about this assignment - many of the group have also
expressed concern over writing this. I simplified it to an update which kept to the same
ideas and themes but in a different context.

When I saw the story, the idea of a fading rocker and his girls just hit me like a sucker punch.
I enjoyed writing it and creating the world. It was also pretty easy as it is quite a current
topic with all these kiss and tell and celebrity exclusives.

The tenses in this piece are constantly jumping from past to present and that was hard to
do. By nature, I find a tense and stick with it but I figured I should keep it raw to give it that
feel of 'this story isn't being told by an English student. He's just a music agent.'

Agafya could probably been adapted in several other ways but I wanted to stay close to this
idea of truth and consequence, lies and distractions. Interesting.

Could have included stream of consciousness stuff. That's a big writing tool now, but it isn't
gonna fit the story. Dialogue could have been better, I think good writing gives characters

their own style. Think I did but I'm kinda biased.

It's hard enough to be impartial about original work but when you're having a bash a
somebody else's, then you're always hyper-conscious about doing it justice. Least, that's
how it is for me - I tend too stray too far from the idea or I make it too similar. It can be
really tricky to get the balance right.

TUTOR NOTES -
The characters and situation you have chosen for your updated version work well (praise
indeed). In particular as regards the Savka character and the narrator, but it is hard to see