Colour Coding me Moment!

Writing Reflection #5

Remember when I wrote about the "Moment" story that I am writing in English class? Well after I finished it (or thought I had finished it) our teacher gave us an assignment that was to colour code the draft of our moment. We used different highlighters, markers, and Sharpies, to underline different aspects of our stories. On one hand, I really didn't like doing it,  but I found it actually did help. We all had to have these "show don't tell" parts in our stories, full of VASK'ing. (VASK'ing stands for Visual Auditory, Smell, Kinesthetic. Basically, giving the reader the feeling of being in the story by using descriptive words.) I realized that I had really nice paragraph of "Show Don't Tell", but I could add to it even more. I guess my work isn't really as good as I think it is when I start...

Ok. So I am loving that I get to blog for my English class. It is so cool that I have like, and online binder to show my stuff on. However, I also really like being able to add my own stuff when I want to, like drawings and other things. I think I am gonna post some of my old short stories, if I can find any, you know, the stories I wrote in Grade 5 or whenever.

One more slight "rabbit trail" here. FanFiction. I discovered this through tumblr, though a blog called "Hermiones Bookshelf" this girl had written some fan fiction about Harry Potter. Now while I love seeing other peoples views on the books and stuff, I don't think that they should've changed the scenarios. A lot of the fan fiction of Harry Potter has characters that died in the books alive again, and some of them in strange situations. Situations like Sirius and Lupin being in a relationship with eachother, (WRONG) and, well that was the biggest thing that bugged me when I was reading. There was however, one that just about killed me it was so funny. It was called "Why You Don't Want Me To Be Your Boyfriend" search that up in google. It is quite enjoyable!
I don't know if I would be very succesful at writing fan fiction, because I think I would feel  really constrained by what already happened in the actual book. Looking at Harry Potter, I think I would probably write about something that happened on a holiday, or when Harry's children are at school... Since we don't know what happens to them, it is all up to our imagination.

Ta Ta For Now!

The Moment and Solitary Confinement

Writing Reflection #4

So over the last week and a bit we have been working on Smith Mag's idea of a story called "The Moment". We have all been writing our own "moments" and mine is currently in rough draft form.

I wrote about my first memory, Halloween when I was four years old. I think that that memory stuck with me because it was really terrifying (for a four year old at least). My "Moment" story certainly needs more work still, because there are parts where the writing doesn't make a lick of sense, and parts that just simply need to be taken out or placed into the story.

My English teacher made us spilt up and go into "solitary confinement" AKA going off and working by yourself without any distractions. I just stayed in the class room and sat on the couch. The classroom was only slightly filled, but the "solitary confinement" sort of failed. We kept chatting... not about the "Moment" but about other random stuff. My English teacher was in the room and kept kindly (and while chuckling) reminding us to not talk. It took a while (about 10 minutes) for us all to stop talking. Now in my opinion, solitary confinement isn't the best thing... I like chatting when working, and the quiet is too much for me. I seem to lose my creative side when it is really quiet while I work. Anyone else feel the same?

One last thing, in case you didn't notice, my blog had a face lift. I changed most of the things that you see. The background, the colours, the fonts....

Do you have any other ideas of what you would like to see on my blog?