assignment 12

1. i didn’t really like writing plays. not my thing, an issue i had for sure was putting everything in the past tense instead of the present. i’ve noticed and heard that i’m very good at writing which is cool since i like it. yea i might wanna try my hand at other types of writing like the screenplays or scripts. limitations that i thought sucked was trying to tell the audience or describe the scene as it were on a stage, when before i could of wrote anything that i wanted and wouldn’t have to worry about oh how would i be able to show this on stage.

2. ideas that i want to talk about in my personal essay? i don’t know life it self. my own little journey that i’ve had all summarized. or maybe moving since i’ve moved around when i was younger and it sucked moving from place to place. leaving friends and trying to make more in a different area that i’m not familiar with. otherwise i’m not sure what i want to write about. could be who i am, how i’ve changed, school..or not school. i really don’t know what i could relate in a personal essay or how to even write it in the first place.

3. well my little sister is ten so i guess i give her advice all the time. like homework even know i can’t remember half the stuff she wants me to help her on because she doesn’t know how to explain things well enough for me to understand. and then later on in school what she might experience and what she has to stay away from. like don’t suck up to people to be friends all the time and stop talking so much you’ll get in trouble and plus it’s annoying. also keep up with your work cause then you’ll just fall behind. otherwise i guess i’m just waiting for her questions for me to answer them.

assignment 11

1. i think theme is important to a story even though sometimes it might take a while to even figure out what the theme is. i think writing needs to have theme or a sense of thought when you go into it and begin writing. cause otherwise it might look like senseless writing that has no point and made absolutely no sense. even when you think about things it's certain things that come across your mind, but also your mind could go completely blank. on the other hand you could write a bunch of jibberish without a point or theme what so ever. you just write what you wanna write and it could make people think of things that come to them. like art they see what they can see and what comes across their mind.

2. what makes great works last forever? i really don’t know. they must probably have morals that people can still take and use to learn from after 200 years. something that was written and understood back then but still relatable now, and able to have discussions comparing past and presents. could i see myself write something that will last forever? i highly doubt i could, something like that takes a lot of luck and skill in my opinion.

3. something to impact the world, i don’t know what would it be. because i don’t even know if the world would even get an impact from it now or later on. maybe to have thoughts that get people to think about everything going on in their lives. something written that’s able to get them to change or re-evaluate things. i’m not really an impact kind of writer maybe more of a thinking kind with some things i’ve written, but not an impact. though something important to me would probably be a thing that could change the world like hunger or in the movie V for Vendetta an impact to politics. how to make that impact? convince the people of what’s going on open their eyes on the issues that i’m trying to address.

assignment 10

1. something in this world that concerns me is starving people. huge issue but an important one too. i care about this issue probably because my mom cares about it alot. like in the philippines, if she could she would help out there and make sure that families who don't have alot and who are starving have at least a bag of rice for themselves and their families for like christmas and thanksgiving. so i guess it rubbed off on me. i can't say that i wanna change the world but i'm saying that i care about this issue.

2. a dyamic person i know is my bestie claire. she's pretty hilarious if you don't know her. usually after class when we're walking in the halls we'd come up with weird things at times yet funny. like claire making up raps or when we made up that snow dance. [p.s claire told me to write about her that's another reason why she's awesome]

3. a movie that has inspired me was the movie "pay it forward". besides the fact that i loved that movie it was very moving and kinda gave alot of believe and shows that even the slightest thing can help a person even if it takes little steps to achieve that goal. like when the son was tryin to help his mom stop drinking. it didn't take one day it was a progressive thing.

assign. 9

1. i think happiness is something that's within, like when you get a gift and it fills you up with a feeling that makes you smile.

2. what makes me happy? i'd say that disney movies make me happy. i'm not really sure why. i think it's cause when i watch disney movies or go to disney world it brings me back to feeling like a kid again.

3. my mom has influence my happiness especially now since i don't see her that often when she's here and we get the chance to hang out it makes me happy cause i know i have a shorten amount of time to spend with her and my mom makes the most of it.

4. the person i think i impact is my little sister, cause i don't spend alot of time with her probably because she's my little sister and i find her annoying but when i do spend time with her she's really happy and is always trying to think of things to do with me when she gets the chance.

5. greatest need? i have no idea, happiness is tied in with everyday life, cause when you're down in the dumps or angry it can make you act in a different way and do things you might regret. happiness can bring people up.

assignment 8

idk what topics that i wanna do. maybe something that i already written like a poem that's somewhere in my notebook

assign. 7

1. what i enjoyed the most this quater was writing poetry. i enjoyed this the most because i really like writing poetry more then daily prompts. even though sometimes with forms of poetry it took me longer to write then others.

2. i think my strongest piece of writing might be poetry. i've done poetry before like since 9th grade. with poetry alot of things come to me every once in awhile, but even though it might be my strongest i still feel like i can improve on it, and get better.

3. as a writer i learned that sometimes it takes me a while to get going and in other times it just hits me and everything starts flowing. most of the time i think i need to get really bored to write or to think about something to write. i don't think i need alot of direction or structure, sometimes if i don't get something i just ask to make sure.

4. writing that i wanna pursue now might be writing fiction stories, i actually wanna finish a story some day, because most of the time i'll start a story and then just forget about it and never finish it. it's the same thing with me and reading.

assignment 6

1. Personally I don’t like being scared by other people on purpose. It’s ok if I’m watching a scary movie or at like trial or terror where they try to scare you.

2. One thing that I have a fear of is that I’m kinda claustrophobic but only when I know I can’t get out of places is when it gets me easily, and also a little afraid of heights. Alot of fears that I get come from myself cause I usually blow things out of proportions like I’ll make things scarier then they really aren’t.

3. What I would consider madness is someone who is really crazy like talking to inanimate objects when they’re like 30 or if they’re in the mental place but then again they aren’t really that mad but something is wrong with them mentally.

4. When people get picked on alot or if they’re all alone their whole life then that might drive them insane. I was watching this show (degrassi lol) and this guy got picked on constantly by people who went to school with him and he eventually brought a gun to school and shot someone that right there shows that guy is crazy.

assignment 5

original: the silence of the night, overcomes the transfer from day to night. people already in their warm mahogany homes resting their eyes and the party crashers coming back from their nights off. neck high in their favorite poison they stumble along heading home while laughing up a storm.

1. night time, not a sound to be made. like an abandon town nobody is out on the streets.

2.

Assignment #4

C. larger topics that joyce is addressing is like rape also i wouldn't say this is large but adulthood growing up and making choices that could effect your life.
D. i think the story appeals to so many people because it's filled with alot of conflicts that gets exciting and intense.
E. in the end i think connie does sleep with him.


I would have to say that what makes a short story great is that the
1) plot has to well thought out
2) it has to grab the reader's attention right away.
3) settings and characters they have to be descriptive more visual
4) especially with characters because you don't have an extra 300 pages to add onto the character's traits. it's like boom that's so and so in a nutshell.
5) length in a short story? i'd say 100, 150 pages tops. or if you want it super short 20 pages
6) genre and type of view personally i would say maybe young adult book, adventure and with the main character being the narrator. and with
7) conflicts i'd say more realistic drama not like comic books kinda thing even though those's are entertaining as well and i would probably like that too.
8) the story flows it's not just scattered where you're jumping from one scence to the next
9) a good strong ending that's just as strong as the beginning
10) original story

Assignment #3

The bitter cold of winter
Is like being alone and broken
You just want to stand there and hopefully freeze
Until you have no more feelings
No more emotions
You are just you with an empty feeling inside
Not knowing what can help it
Or fill it up again
Would you rather stay out of the cold and feel whole again
Or walk forward into a blizzard strom
Killing off every last bit of you



What am I a song?
The music beats as my heart beats
Words written and words spoken
Some read, some heard
As it's being read like a book
I close the cover

Specific Writing [assign. 2]

My piece of writing I choose from this book called "burned". It's about this girl name Pattyn and her family are mormons. They're very religious but Pattyn starts to experience things outside the religion, like questioning God and wanting to experience things that other teenagers experience like love. But she's afraid that she might be judge for doing sinful things. I'm reading it right now for American Lit. (outside reading). I actually borrowed the book from my friend Debbie who already ready it and said it was a fast read and a really good book. The book is about 531 pages and when I heard that and saw how thick the book was I was having some second thoughts. I'm not a big reader but Debbie told me that how it was written made it a fast read. The book is almost written like a poetry book and if you ever look at it that's what you might think at first, but it isn't and one thing I like about the book is how it's formatted. The book so far hasn't really "hit"/impacted me yet since I just started but so far this book is a book that I just wanna read and which is rare for me.
passage:
I began
To view the world at large
through borrowed eyes,
eyes more like those
I wanted to own
Hopeful.
I began
to see that it was more than
okay-it was, in some circles,
expected- to question my
little piece of the planet.
Empowered.
I began
to understand that I could
stretch if I wanted to, explore
if I dared, escape
if I just put one foot
in front of the other
Enlightened.
I began
to realize that escape
might offer the only real
hope of freedom from my
supposed God-given roles---
wife and mother of as many
babies as my body could bear
Emboldened.

I think in this passage Pattyn is beginning to see things outside of what she was taught and raised. Seeing the truth and questioning others.

When is a time when you learned a lesson outside of school?

autobiography

Name's Robena, I have two brothers and two sisters. I like to play soccer in my free time with my brothers, going to shakopee and goofing off with my cousins, and also writing. The kind of writing I would say that I do is I guess mostly poetry really, and I would probably say more of just thoughts. Also I'm working on writing a story. I haven't really firgured out where I'm going with the story and how to progress with it but right now all I got is a couple of pages. In creative writing I wanna work on being more desciptive, using different word choices so I don't seem to sound so repeative, and also be able to different other kinds of writing. Do I have a favorite writer? No, not really I don't really read other people's work. I should start though might be able to teach me a few things.
My own writing? Check below.

I see you, but do you see me?
You feel cold chills down your spine.
As you pass through the invisible lines.
Lines that make up me.

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