Throughout the past quarter, you have been discussing the process of writing and your identity as a writer. For this last (!) blog post, I want you to discuss who you believe you are as a writer and/or composer. To do this I want you to have a little fun, so I'm not looking for you to do a traditional 300-500 word response. What I want is you to think about how you could represent the characteristics that define you as a writer/composer that you have developed and honed this quarter (and those that you came in with).
Some suggestions for ways to create this:
*A job wanted ad or a personal
*A poem
*Through a series of images
*an obit
*a short short (short fiction piece)
*a song
The possibilities with responding are very open. You can respond back to this post OR you can create a new post.
This should be as long as it needs to be to get your point across. I should see elements of you----so I should be able to get a sense of who wrote what without even looking at the author's name.
And remember: have fun with this---it's your last one for this class. =)
Due by Friday, March 9, 2012.
Writing.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you spite me?
No matter how hard I try you always seem to
find me.
I loathe you so
Every assignment I get a blow
I do only what I must, its bad
I know.
But oh what is this?
You give yourself no credit
You have your own voice, without having to edit!
You take pride in not using those 50 cent words
And value your own opinion over the world’s
You Annalise are a good writer its true
But the most memorable part of your writing is
that it came from you.
Have i found you yet?
ReplyDeleteI use you daily but are you apart of me?
I think you are getting there
but i haven't found you yet
I know i will someday
And one day it will click
But when?
can it be now?
I will need to work towards it
But it think I can do it
I will need to research
And i will need to think
From pathos, logos, ethos
To audience, genre, rhetorical situation
I think I am starting to get there
Im starting to make connections
Writing is more then just words
Its your words
Your creativeness
Your meaning
Its starting to click
Finally here
But the road never ends
Writing never ends
No matter what situation
You will need writing
So start now
And never stop
If i can do it
You can too.
Meticulously he works through the night, asking himself, how can he best that fool, that Bat?
ReplyDeleteRunning around in that silly cape, he shouldn't stand a chance but every time he has him trapped... he gets away. The Riddler is his name and riddles are his game. He prods he pokes and he scrutinizes, but the Batman always gets his way. He always finds that one weakness in logic, the one thing that he hadn't thought of.
But not this time, oh not this time.
There's a flash and the Batman is suddenly there standing, shrouded in shadow.
He's got him this time, this trap will work, guaranteed.
It doesn't... the Bat is ever vigilant, always probing, more so than the Riddler.
He accepts defeat and retreats for another day.
Maybe someday...
(For anyone really confused, I just think that I ask a lot of questions about my writing and how to make it better and work very hard to find the flaws and fix them if there are any)
I find writing class simple
ReplyDeleteYou walk in, sit, listen
And then it's given to you
The idea
The idea of which you'll write about
No real creativity needed
The assignment is easy
You take evidence
To prove an idea
And idea that has already
been given to you
So what's the difficulty?
Impressing a teacher
Involving your voice
Identifying yourself as a writer
To write without guidelines
That's the hard thing about writing
I do not find writing simple, just the class
So what do I take from this?
I take this exact knowledge
Writing is not simple
it never has been,
It never will be
All of us struggle
No key terms
50 cent words
or long reading will change that
We must create from
what we know, but
most importantly
We must create from what we don't know.