Student Choice: 500 words or 5-minute video. You author content that includes a title, category, and a reflection about your experiences in this class. Consider specific assignments, specific readings/films, specific conversations, and/or specific processes that helped you learn and grow. This blog is a continuation of the blog, "Lets Talk!" Part One, as I am continuing to talk about the gameshow. The first game can be found in part one, linked above. In this blog, I am writing about the second game. In our groups, we had to piece together a writing called "The Art of Memoir", by Mary Karr. The pages were cut in half, and we had to find the other half to each page, and put them in order from the first page to the last page. To put the pages together, you just had to read a little and to see where the flow would be. By the flow, I mean how the words works with each other, as well as when she would talk about what she did. Mary Karr wrote about the three truths that she heard from every mouth. "(1) Writing is painful—it’s “fun” only for novices, the very young, and hacks; (2) other than a few instances of luck, good work only comes through revision; (3) the best revisers often have reading habits that stretch back before the current age, which lends them a sense of history and raises their standards for quality." The most important thing within those truths, is reflection. Reflection is the main point of the piece, yet she does go into other points. This game was fun and challenging, as it made you put together "puzzle pieces", but you also had to read to understand where they went. Using clues, you could easily put them together. Below I will be providing pictures of the writing put together.
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In this blog post, I will being looking back onto my research paper, and answering questions about my writing process and how I plan to revise my first draft. A video called reflective writing, describes the 3 step process of reflective thinking.
My thoughtful answers to the questions above:
Introduction: For this blog post, I am reflecting on my creative narrative piece. I have recently written a memoir about my life choice for my English Comp 1 class. Also, I watched a Reflective Writing Video to help with my discussion today. I will be providing answers to the questions following this text.
Introduction: In this blog post, I am listing quotes from 3 selected articles. They are: "The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers" by Maria Popova, "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott, and "Zen in the Art of Writing" by Ray Bradbury. I have pulled 3 quoted from each piece and will list my own three about my own writing processes.
The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova) 1. “Another thing I need to do, when I’m near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it. That’s one reason I go home to Sacramento to finish things. Somehow the book doesn’t leave you when you’re asleep right next to it.” Joan Didion 2. “A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.” E.B. White 3. “I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism.” Haruki Murakami Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott) 1. “…I finally notice the one-inch picture frame that I put on my desk to remind me of short assignments. It reminds me that all I have to do is to write down as much as I can see through a one-inch picture frame” Anne Lamott 2. “Few writers really know what they are doing until they’ve done it.” Anne Lamott 3. “There are probably a number of ways to tell your story right, and someone else may be able to tell you whether or not you’ve found one of these ways.’ Anne Lamott Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury) 1. “In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth dead falling or tiger-trapping.” Ray Bradbury 2. “It was only when I began to discover the treats and tricks that came with word association that I began to find some true way through the minefields of imitation. I finally figured out that if you are going to step on a live mine, make it your own. Be blown up, as it were, by your own delights and despairs.” Ray Bradbury 3. “I leave you now at the bottom of your own stair, at half after midnight, with a pad, a pen, and a list to be made. Conjure the nouns, alert the secret self, taste the darkness. […] Your Thing at the top of your stairs in your own private night … may well come down.” My Own Quotes 1. Open your mind to different occasions to see the best fit 2. Receive constructive criticism to help you improve 3. Drafts aren't a bad thing, they are multiple ways that you have gotten better |
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