-- For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. [Jack Dann]
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
--Journal #1
Writing to me is not just words on a piece of paper or words that you type. Writing is like expressing your inner feelings and everything that's inside of you. It's basically just like talking, although, you don't get interrupted. My experiences in writing include making plays, researching, making bio's, writing reports, poems, multiple essays, and blogging on the internet. (tumblr.com, blogger.com) Out of everything I've done, I like blogging. Honestly, I don't consider myself as a "great" writer but I do enjoy it very much! I understand that nobody in this world is perfect. Just because you're a perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect, right? Yet, every time I write, I try my best to reach "perfect". My goals in writing is to have a smooth flow in my story and to have them in the right order. Doing this can lead to my second goal...from experience, I've learned that people get mesmerized or drawn into the story when it portrays a special message to them. When I say "special message", i mean something like a lesson. Some other goals in writing are to make the people who read my work feel the MAGIC! :) But, my purpose is to entertain myself first, then the others second. Just so I could enjoy my own writing, too. I want to work on using the six traits. Maybe if I do that, I will be able to write my own novel/book, or at least see my work end up in the paper or magazine!
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Hi Czarina,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds as if you’ve got a great background in writing! How do you like Tumblr as a blog tool? Another school that I know is using it, but I haven’t tried it yet.
Your writing goals are great…and I agree with you about striving for perfection even if we’re not perfect : ) Perhaps this year you can enter some of your writing into various student competitions and get it published!
Here are my comments on your writing pre-assessment: I agree with your overall assessment comment that this is more like a draft than a final piece. That is accurate. And it’s a pretty good draft. You’ve got a scene, a problem, a resolution. What you’d need to do for a revision, would be to select the parts of the incident that would best get that “beginning, middle, and end” across and then develop those parts. For example, if you included more details about the setting and the other people involved, you could show, not tell, that this was graduation day. Added details about the other “characters” would also help to show, not tell, about their mood that day and how it changed by the conclusion of your story.
For your idea bank… nice job of collecting specific details about your feelings in the various situations; would help to also include descriptions of the other people involved, their actions, and the setting.
mrs s
ps—I enjoyed the quote on your blog post