After writing my first true play the limitation that I found were finding way to express the characters thoughts and idea through dialogue. Stage directions and the addition of characters in the state directions were hard to write. The pleasant surprises I found was coming up with foreshadow in the dialogue which was pretty fun. Yes, I would be interested in attempting drama writing or anything of its form, screenplays or television scripts. Because once you get past the stage directions everything is wide of to what you want to do. Unlike a story which you have to flow certain restrictions in a play you’re open to writing anything you want. I had a lot of fun writing this play more then any other thing we have done this year.
If I could give a 10 year old advice about growing up I would share personal experiences and what I have seen in the world. I would tell them the world isn’t always going to be the great places to live in and people will always try to push you down. As long as you can stay true to your self, keep believing in the dreams that God has given you, and then nothing can stop you. You are going to have days where you mess up and that’s okay. Take the time to learn from those mistakes and grow to make your self a better person. Never forget you only live once and live it to the fullest without doing dumb things all the time.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Monday, December 10, 2007
Assignment #2 Miles
How important is sugar to make ice cream? Yeah you can make ice cream without the sugar but it will never be as sweet. I great piece of literature is like ice cream with a perfect amount of sugar, milk, and all the other things that go into making the perfect bowl of ice cream. Expressing an idea or Theme, as most people would put it makes the story sweeter. The book the Color of Water by: James McBride if he hadn’t expressed the idea of races and how your skin color doesn’t make you any different from anyone else it wouldn’t have been as good of a book. The stories the where shared were good, but to make them have meaning behind theme adds that sugar to everything making everything just better. But on the other side you never know how much sugar people like in their ice cream. By that I mean some books have ideas and/or theme that don’t work out with what I think the book was trying to say. But all and all every book needs some sugar just to make it a little bit better.
Great literary work that last forever has a theme that never gets old. A theme that is still as relevant in the present as it was when it first came out. People read books that they usually can have some relation to. Those are the books with themes that can never get old or never be fully interpreted. I don’t think I’m a good writer so no I do not foresee anything I write lasting a long time.
I couldn’t even tell you. I can’t answer these types of questions. All I can say is that I will try to make this world a better place then I found it. I don’t know how I’m going to do that but I sure will try. The reason why its important to me to leave this world a better place then I found it is because I was raised to be the best person I could be. I’m that I made a goal for myself to hopefully do something that impacts the world in a positive way. If not the world I pray that I can have an impact on even one person and I’d feel that I’ve accomplished my goal.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Assignment #1 Miles
Something that concerns me in the world we live in today is the fact that people have such little respect for life. I believe as your world continues to evolve that grow you find new and fast ways to kill each other. Even though we have better and fast methods to find out who kill or murdered someone, people still find better and faster ways to kill. Its a sad time in the world when an innocent person loses their life because of the little value for life some people have.
“Louis” my friend has probably one of the most dynamic and lively personalities I know. The reason why “Louis” personality is so dynamic is because it’s always full of life and “Louis” is always up for anything fun and exciting. When you're in a room with “Louis” very rarely will “Louis” not be the life of the room. “Louis” personality just cares this presence that just makes you feel good and happy to be around.
I don’t have one specific piece of art that was greatly inspired me. So many different things have lead to the inspiration of other things. That naming one would be an injustice to the other thing that inspired me to be inspired by that specific piece of writing. But I’ll tell you though about a book that I read last year called The Color of Water by: James McBride. This book taught me a lot about self worth, dreams, and the meaning of have a true family. I also learned about how people think that they are so different but we are acutely a lot like in our dream and aspirations. I feel that the world has so much potential to be a great place for people to live. But the growing lack of love for one another is leading us to a point where mankind will destroy and kill everything. I dream that some day that people will see each other as the color of water. Because water has no color we can finally be at peace with one another. Maybe some day that aspiration with come true and maybe it’s a better thing that it doesn’t I really don’t know. I wondered about how we can achieve self worth if we have nothing to compare ourselves to. I enjoyed how James McBride mixed all these ideas in The Color of Water.
“Louis” my friend has probably one of the most dynamic and lively personalities I know. The reason why “Louis” personality is so dynamic is because it’s always full of life and “Louis” is always up for anything fun and exciting. When you're in a room with “Louis” very rarely will “Louis” not be the life of the room. “Louis” personality just cares this presence that just makes you feel good and happy to be around.
I don’t have one specific piece of art that was greatly inspired me. So many different things have lead to the inspiration of other things. That naming one would be an injustice to the other thing that inspired me to be inspired by that specific piece of writing. But I’ll tell you though about a book that I read last year called The Color of Water by: James McBride. This book taught me a lot about self worth, dreams, and the meaning of have a true family. I also learned about how people think that they are so different but we are acutely a lot like in our dream and aspirations. I feel that the world has so much potential to be a great place for people to live. But the growing lack of love for one another is leading us to a point where mankind will destroy and kill everything. I dream that some day that people will see each other as the color of water. Because water has no color we can finally be at peace with one another. Maybe some day that aspiration with come true and maybe it’s a better thing that it doesn’t I really don’t know. I wondered about how we can achieve self worth if we have nothing to compare ourselves to. I enjoyed how James McBride mixed all these ideas in The Color of Water.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Assignment 7
In this quick 1st quarter of Creative Writing I have enjoyed the short stories section. I also enjoyed doing the poetry section but I don’t feel that I’m a good poem writer. The reason why I enjoyed the short stories more then the rest was because I find it quite fun to write stories. Poems are too short to get a point a cross in an interesting manner. Don’t get me wrong Poems were also a lot of fun.
The strongest piece of writing written by: eZy himSelf would have to be the story named Did I Every Say Thank You? The reason why I think that this was my strongest piece of writing is because of the point of view it was written. Writing the beginning of the story is the end of the story and the end of is a continuation of the start. So it’s pretty much written in a manner that isn’t used often by most people.
Honestly I’ve only learned on thing about my self this quarter. The thing I learned about myself was that I’m not bad at writing poems. I was not looking forward to the long poem section because from my past experiences I didn’t do well in poetry. I would consider myself self-driven and I don’t need people to push me to get something done. I hate having structure when it comes to creative writing. It’s creative writing, the writer should be able to take the story in any direction they want.
Honestly anything. I’m extremely opened minded to do anything. Plays would be a something I would be looking forward to. After reading the book Monster I’ve been interested in writing a play that didn’t have structure. And I could take it any where I wanted to.
The strongest piece of writing written by: eZy himSelf would have to be the story named Did I Every Say Thank You? The reason why I think that this was my strongest piece of writing is because of the point of view it was written. Writing the beginning of the story is the end of the story and the end of is a continuation of the start. So it’s pretty much written in a manner that isn’t used often by most people.
Honestly I’ve only learned on thing about my self this quarter. The thing I learned about myself was that I’m not bad at writing poems. I was not looking forward to the long poem section because from my past experiences I didn’t do well in poetry. I would consider myself self-driven and I don’t need people to push me to get something done. I hate having structure when it comes to creative writing. It’s creative writing, the writer should be able to take the story in any direction they want.
Honestly anything. I’m extremely opened minded to do anything. Plays would be a something I would be looking forward to. After reading the book Monster I’ve been interested in writing a play that didn’t have structure. And I could take it any where I wanted to.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Assignment 6: Fear Questions
Fear Questions:1. Do you like to be scared? Why or why not? In what settings are you okay with being frightened?
· Ha, if anyone can find someone in planet Earth that likes begin scared then I would be pretty amazed. To answer the question do I like to be scared the answer is No I sure do not like begin scared. Because the feeling you get isn’t a pleasant feeling at all. I enjoy going to scare movies just to be scared and get that adrenaline rush. Another place I enjoy begin scared are haunted house rides and amusement parks.
2. What scares you? Are there things you fear? Are there things in our world you consider horrific? These do not have to be about ghosts or monsters. (One of Stephen King's bestselling horror novels was about a dog.) Perhaps you are afraid to ski or afraid of snakes. Maybe you hate being alone in your house at night. Maybe you are afraid of big cities. Where do your fears come from? Are you more scared by blood and guts terror or by subtle the possibility of something horrible happening?
· Not having full control or understanding over a situation where i know that i should be able to change or stop the feeling I’m getting. By that I mean like getting lost where you don’t know where to go and don’t have an understanding of the situation or make it stop when you want. A lot of things also scare me the common things that scare many people. I fear losing my brother or sister in a public place and never finding them. There are so many thing in this world that I can consider horrific maybe its because i don’t understand the entire situation. Right now i think its pretty horrific what’s happening to the child in Iraq where they have to live in fear every day wondering weather today might be the day that they are killed. I couldn’t imagine that feeling where every morning you wonder weather your even going to make it to school and back. Or weather your parents are going to be home later. Living in the fear of death has to be one of the most horrific things happening in this world. Many of our fears come from not understanding what is truly happening or having a previous perception of something that was completely wrong so you live in fear of it until you final understand what it that you fear.
3. What, in your opinion, is a good definition for madness? What would a person have to do to be considered "mad" by you?
· Eric M. Wangongu’s Definition of madness: A point of insanity that has gone past just begin mad. People reach madness when they finally snap over from being mad.
· A mad person is a person who has just lost it. Common sense isn’t common for them anymore. The things they do just don’t connect with the things you would expect out of the normal person. People who just do crazy things that make people question what they might be thinking. Not normal kind of crazy like someone jumping into a frozen lake without clothing, but that other kind of crazy they kind of crazy that you find in an insane asylum. Those people who shot up schools i.e. that V-Tech shooter was a “mad” man.
4. Poe writes about a man driven to madness. What drives people to madness today in your opinion? How does someone go from seemingly normal to insane (at least temporarily)?
· I really have no idea what drives people do madness its something that is so different for so many people. People just worry about to many things that don’t really matter so they are driven mad by those things. By worrying to much about things they think mean everything when they actually mean nothing.
· Ha, if anyone can find someone in planet Earth that likes begin scared then I would be pretty amazed. To answer the question do I like to be scared the answer is No I sure do not like begin scared. Because the feeling you get isn’t a pleasant feeling at all. I enjoy going to scare movies just to be scared and get that adrenaline rush. Another place I enjoy begin scared are haunted house rides and amusement parks.
2. What scares you? Are there things you fear? Are there things in our world you consider horrific? These do not have to be about ghosts or monsters. (One of Stephen King's bestselling horror novels was about a dog.) Perhaps you are afraid to ski or afraid of snakes. Maybe you hate being alone in your house at night. Maybe you are afraid of big cities. Where do your fears come from? Are you more scared by blood and guts terror or by subtle the possibility of something horrible happening?
· Not having full control or understanding over a situation where i know that i should be able to change or stop the feeling I’m getting. By that I mean like getting lost where you don’t know where to go and don’t have an understanding of the situation or make it stop when you want. A lot of things also scare me the common things that scare many people. I fear losing my brother or sister in a public place and never finding them. There are so many thing in this world that I can consider horrific maybe its because i don’t understand the entire situation. Right now i think its pretty horrific what’s happening to the child in Iraq where they have to live in fear every day wondering weather today might be the day that they are killed. I couldn’t imagine that feeling where every morning you wonder weather your even going to make it to school and back. Or weather your parents are going to be home later. Living in the fear of death has to be one of the most horrific things happening in this world. Many of our fears come from not understanding what is truly happening or having a previous perception of something that was completely wrong so you live in fear of it until you final understand what it that you fear.
3. What, in your opinion, is a good definition for madness? What would a person have to do to be considered "mad" by you?
· Eric M. Wangongu’s Definition of madness: A point of insanity that has gone past just begin mad. People reach madness when they finally snap over from being mad.
· A mad person is a person who has just lost it. Common sense isn’t common for them anymore. The things they do just don’t connect with the things you would expect out of the normal person. People who just do crazy things that make people question what they might be thinking. Not normal kind of crazy like someone jumping into a frozen lake without clothing, but that other kind of crazy they kind of crazy that you find in an insane asylum. Those people who shot up schools i.e. that V-Tech shooter was a “mad” man.
4. Poe writes about a man driven to madness. What drives people to madness today in your opinion? How does someone go from seemingly normal to insane (at least temporarily)?
· I really have no idea what drives people do madness its something that is so different for so many people. People just worry about to many things that don’t really matter so they are driven mad by those things. By worrying to much about things they think mean everything when they actually mean nothing.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Assignment 5
Final First Lines
- “A stranger that I never said a word to how? How can a stranger make me lose sleep night after night? How can the actions of a stranger keep me up hour on end replaying in my mind?”
- “The tears began rolling down my eyes and even at that point I wasn’t able to say thank you.”
- Some days I still and let the action of my life replay over and over in my mind I ask myself how could you be such a God damn ass that you could even take the time to say two simple words to another human begin. Who was only showing you compassion?
- Every day we wake thinking nothing bad could ever happen to us today. Well nothing bad did happen to me that day. But it still-hunts me to this day and ever walking moment I suffer because of it.
- I sit here in front of you today asking for your forgiveness. I need your forgiveness before I can feel that I’ve said goodbye.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Assignment #4
Task One
a) The reason that it’s important is because she feels alone all the time even when her family is home. This creep old drunk man shows up at her house, and he knows everything about her life and family. At this point Connie really wants her family around her to save her from this man how is trying to rape her. It’s Irony at its fullest.
b) What draws in readers to Connie is the way to takes in everything. As a reader you feel as tho everything she does she feels as if nothing could ever happen to her. So we as the read can tell that something is going to happen to this beautiful young girl. Because of the decision she makes. I do think that she does represent something in our society where people feel like nothing could ever happen to them so they continually make dumb decisions. Connie represent the naivety of our young youth group who something need s slap in this face to realize that we live in an extremely dangerous world.
c) I think the author is trying to address mental security and understand what could happen to you when you try and keep a naive mind about things that might happen to you.
d) I don't think understand why this would appeal to anyone because i almost stop reading it. I don't think i would have read this story ever. I didn't like the way the author changed the story towards the middle and how it end or came to a climax. The hook and start of this short story was great but the middle and end were not appealing at all.
e) shes raped then murdered or she runs away and later kills she because she wasn't able to deal with what had happened and didn't want any help because she felt worthless to the world.
f) what? what do you mean how do you explain the actions of the male antagonist? I don't where are are supposed to take this question when we answer it. Thats the kind of person he is because of what might have happened to him in his past. The Crap of the human race the group of people that are absolutely worthless. The reason why hes important is because he adds to evil side to the story. I'm not going to lie this story sucked and I'd never recommended anyone to ever read it.
Task Two
1. Story- The story line means everything and is what draws people in
2. Characters- Characters that people can relate to help people enjoy the story more.
3. Plot Line- The Flow of the story. It needs to make scene to the reader so they don't feel lost and confused while they read the story unless you have a great twist to the story.
4. Theme- The message is everything and is what the reader will always remember
5.Setting- This ties in with Relation. Reader need to be able to relate to the setting and the setting need to help enhance the story line.
6.Point of View- To help the reader understand what is happening
7. Relation- You have to able to connect to the stroy
8. ?
9.Genre- It depends no who you are and what you really enjoy reading
10. Length- Can't to be long then readers lose interest
a) The reason that it’s important is because she feels alone all the time even when her family is home. This creep old drunk man shows up at her house, and he knows everything about her life and family. At this point Connie really wants her family around her to save her from this man how is trying to rape her. It’s Irony at its fullest.
b) What draws in readers to Connie is the way to takes in everything. As a reader you feel as tho everything she does she feels as if nothing could ever happen to her. So we as the read can tell that something is going to happen to this beautiful young girl. Because of the decision she makes. I do think that she does represent something in our society where people feel like nothing could ever happen to them so they continually make dumb decisions. Connie represent the naivety of our young youth group who something need s slap in this face to realize that we live in an extremely dangerous world.
c) I think the author is trying to address mental security and understand what could happen to you when you try and keep a naive mind about things that might happen to you.
d) I don't think understand why this would appeal to anyone because i almost stop reading it. I don't think i would have read this story ever. I didn't like the way the author changed the story towards the middle and how it end or came to a climax. The hook and start of this short story was great but the middle and end were not appealing at all.
e) shes raped then murdered or she runs away and later kills she because she wasn't able to deal with what had happened and didn't want any help because she felt worthless to the world.
f) what? what do you mean how do you explain the actions of the male antagonist? I don't where are are supposed to take this question when we answer it. Thats the kind of person he is because of what might have happened to him in his past. The Crap of the human race the group of people that are absolutely worthless. The reason why hes important is because he adds to evil side to the story. I'm not going to lie this story sucked and I'd never recommended anyone to ever read it.
Task Two
1. Story- The story line means everything and is what draws people in
2. Characters- Characters that people can relate to help people enjoy the story more.
3. Plot Line- The Flow of the story. It needs to make scene to the reader so they don't feel lost and confused while they read the story unless you have a great twist to the story.
4. Theme- The message is everything and is what the reader will always remember
5.Setting- This ties in with Relation. Reader need to be able to relate to the setting and the setting need to help enhance the story line.
6.Point of View- To help the reader understand what is happening
7. Relation- You have to able to connect to the stroy
8. ?
9.Genre- It depends no who you are and what you really enjoy reading
10. Length- Can't to be long then readers lose interest
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