What Genre Should I Use to Describe My Holiday Story

It was a nice Easter Sunday when I woke up to find dozens of plastic eggs hidden in various spots around my yard. I was old enough to figure out on my own that the Easter bunny was just another character that my parents had played when I was younger. My sister Lauren was not wise to this yet, so we had to go and tell her that the Easter bunny had in fact visited our yard. She jumped up, and as tradition would have it she got to start collecting the eggs first out of the 4 of us. My sister Kristen, and brother DJ, and I would follow soon thereafter to get to the egg loot. Every year when the "Easter bunny" stopped in he filled the eggs with quarters and sometimes even the occasional dollar. After the after all of the eggs were collected my parents brought out a letter, said to be from the Easter Bunny. The letter said that there was a special egg hidden inside the house, it was bigger in size than the ones we had collected outside. There was a clue as to where it was hidden, it said "you will find this egg too cold to hold anything alive", I at this point must also mention that the Easter bunny stipulated to get the special prize we would have to work together as a team. The 4 of us put our brains together, and started looking in the freezer in the kitchen, when it was not there we headed to the chest freezer in the basement. To our excitement, we found a large egg! We opened it to find yet another clue. The second clue read, "to find your next clue look in a place that rhymes with pale", thinking heavily about words that rhymed with pale, we determined to look in the mail. Four kids running out to the mailbox must have been a sight for the parents. There was another large egg in the mail, with yet another clue. The third clue read, "find me in the green machine." At first we all thought the green machine was the lawn mower, but then after not finding an egg around it, I figured out they were talking about a green car that we had in our driveway. Everyone raced to the green car, and found a trampoline in a box, that said, "happy Easter from the Easter bunny!"

For this particular event in my life I would pick the short story genre. There are so many details, that need to be described. I could really use the character development that comes along with a short story. I could go into detail about my siblings, and my parents. I surely could go further into the setting. Using the weather is a good indication of what kind of day it was, but I could go into greater detail about the house, and the colors, and the places the eggs were hidden. The point of view of course is me living in the first person experience. That is the short of why this would make a good story.

When I wrote the above statement explaining my holiday experience it just flowed naturally. I am not what you would call a "poetic" kind of person, and the short story is what would be natural and not forced for me.

Short stories rely on character, plot, theme, language and insight, because they are not lengthy. You have to squeeze an entire event into a couple of pages. My holiday story can include all of these things.

I personally believe that in order for it to be good writing, you have to write what you are comfortable with, and just let it flow.Nav Bar Spacer