I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. -Grandma Moses In this Blog, I read 3 articles written by Lee Gutkind, Lee Martin, and Maya Angelou and I'm going to compose a scene about my present life.
On a beautiful cloudy day, Sitting in the car on my way to school, my mom told me, "My daughter, you are beautiful and only you can make yourself sad, only you can put yourself in a bad situation, only you can bring your own downfall. Just be careful with the choices that you made because they have consequences." I was just looking at my mom and I ask, "what made you want to tell me this?" You know what she said, "she just felt like preaching." I laughed and said "Okay." Its really crazy what you can take from at 30 minute car ride conversation. When I arrived to school, I got out the car and I was just thinking about my life at 20 years old. I was just thinking,"How will I end up in 5 years. Will I end up being a bum? Will I be famous? Will i be a still person ? Will I succeed in a higher education then my parents?" All these thoughts filling my head while I'm walking to class. It's crazy how I'm still young as ever, thinking about life when I have to realize that I have time. I have time to get what I want done but I have to be patience.
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“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón In this blog, you will be reading about round table discussion with 3 authors who are Don Murray, Maria popova, and Anne Lamott. These 3 authors will be discussing their writing plan, how writing influence themselves. I will be taking 3 quotes from each article that interest me.
Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product by: Don Murray Quote 1: "What is the process we should teach? It is the process of discovery through language. It is the process of exploration of what we should know and what we feel about what we know through language. It is the process of using language to learn about our world, to evaluate what we learn about our world, to communicate what we learn about our world. " -Don Murray Quote 2: "The writer, as he writes, is making ethical decisions. He doesn’t test his words by a rule book, but by life. He uses language to reveal the truth to himself so that he can tell it to others." -Don Murray Quote 3: " Actually, most of our students have learned a great deal of language before they come to us, and they are quite willing to exploit that language if they are allowed to embark on a serious search for their own truth." -Don Murray The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers by: Maria Popova Quote 1: "When I’m really working I don’t like to go out or have anybody to dinner, because then I lose the hour. If I don’t have the hour, and start the next day with just some bad pages and nowhere to go, I’m in low spirits." -Joan Didion Quote 2: "When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write." -Ernest Hemingway Quote 3: "I write my stories in the morning, my diary at night." -Anais Nin Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott Quote 1: "Criticism is very hard to take." -Anne Lamott Quote 2: "When someone reliable gives you this kind of feedback, you now have some true sense of your work's effect on people, and you may now know how to approach your final draft. -Anne Lamott Quote 3: "You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way." -Anne Lamott Nymahlee Quotes Quote 1: "Never give up on what you believe in." Quote 2: "Always accept Criticism, only makes you stronger as a individual." Quote 3: "When writing, never let anything distract you." 1.What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having no worries 2.What is your greatest fear? Bugs 3.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Its hard for me to speak up for myself 4.What is the trait you most deplore in others? Lack of respect, lack of honesty 5.Which living person do you most admire? My mother 6.What is your greatest extravagance? Myself 7.What is your current state of mind? Wondering when I’m going to have my work done 8.What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Chastity/virginity. Something like that where people think having/liking sex lowers my value as a female 9.On what occasion do you lie? If people ask me if I have food in my refrigerator 10.What do you most dislike about your appearance? Nothing, I’m beautiful in my own way 11.Which living person do you most despise? No one, don’t care that much to despise someone 12.What is the quality you most like in a man? How honest he is 13.What is the quality you most like in a woman? Having respect for herself 14.Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Bro 15.What or who is the greatest love of your life? My nieces and nephew 16.When and where were you happiest? 2012, when I went to New Orleans 17.Which talent would you most like to have? Wish I can sew 18.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? How emotional I am 19.What do you consider your greatest achievement? Not giving up being I college 20.If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A lion, so I can be the king of the jungle 21.Where would you most like to live? Califronia 22.What is your most treasured possession? I don’t have a treasured possession 23.What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Bring strangled 24.What is your favorite occupation? Working at a restaurant 25.What is your most marked characteristic? How nice I am 26.What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty and respect 27.Who are your favorite writers? George R. R. Martin and Anne Schraff 28.Who is your hero of fiction? Simba from lion king 29.Which historical figure do you most identify with? Harriet tubman, she thought about others before herself 30.Who are your heroes in real life? My mother and Oprah 31.What are your favorite names? Don’t have one 32.What is it that you most dislike? Rude people 33.What is your greatest regret? Caring about others that never cared about me 34.How would you like to die? When I’m 105 and in my sleep 35.What is your motto? Never give up |
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