Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Still Attractive (a slightly more honest post)

   Readers I know you love me, but you don't really love the real me. I am not some super attractive prison inmate, known for his contributions to the local community as well as the internet. I am in fact a super attractive 16 year old upstanding citizen known for his contributions to the community, and this blog was the result of a non-fiction writing class that I now have to reflect on.
  I really did enjoy the class especially this blog aspect it really allowed me to explore my personality seeing exactly how much of a jackass I could be in my writing, and writing a character rather than yourself is quite the experience as well. However I think I may have stretched the boundaries of the blog a little, as very little of my stories are true and thus not non-fiction writing. In my defense a few were true (the old shampoo lady was an actual experience). It was also a really easy way to workshop a lot of writing. Students could post comments on their peers writing rather than spending multiple days in class discussing the writing.
  As for the rest of the class, as in not blogs, I really like how well some of the essays prepared me for my college essays, at least I hope they did I have no idea what college essays are actually like. Either way good stuff, including the books. Botany of Desire should be read next year by the way. It really shows how informal a research type book can be which I really had never seen before.
  I do however wish there were more people on my level of attractiveness, that really needs to be fixed next year, someone should form a committee or something.

4 comments:

  1. I love your last paragraph. Non-Fiction definitely will help with those essays. Great post

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  2. It was interesting reading blogs written by an arrogant person. Keep it up?

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  3. Even if the stories themselves aren't completely true, the feelings behind the stories (that you're arrogant <3) are what matter. It's like writing about your memories; you don't necessarily get all the details correct, but the feelings behind the memory are what actually matter. Sorry if that rambling didn't make any sense.

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  4. I'm sure we'll all be working on becoming more attractive over the summer. Have a good one.

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