Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Assignment #9

1. To me, happiness would be being comfortable with yourself. Forget money, and material possesions, I'd be fine without any of that stuff. When a person is comfortable with who they are, then they can focus on what really matters (making themselves happy) and then really start living life.

2. In my life, happiness is doing things that make me happy and never second guessing my decisions. I believe that that is an important concept in life because if you have any regrets about what you have done, you can never fully move on and fulfill your dreams. My greatest source of happiness is knowing that I have tried to follow this belief since I can remember. Knowing that I'm doing what makes me happy is all that i need to know.

3. My dad's best friend is a good example. He's one cool cat and he always tries to explain things which he thinks will help me out. True Overholt is one cool cat too. His carefree spirit and exuberance for life inspire me to do great things.

4. I really don't know who I impact in terms of their happiness. I would like to think it is a lot of people, but I really have no way of knowing. Hopefully my creative writing group has become happier because of my presence.

5. The greatest need in my life is to be happy. I don't want to live life running around all sad and angry all the time because that is pathetic and I don't want to be pathetic because being pathetic is horrible. Nobody likes horrible things because people want to be happy. That's why I want to be happy, so then everyone else will be happy.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Assignment #8

For my photostory, I really don't have any ideas. I think writing something that has to do with showing how time moves so fast, or the different chapters in our lives would be cool. I have ideas for music, and probably some photos too, but as for the writing, like I said before, that's up in the air.

Assignment #7

1. This quarter I enjoyed writing poetry the most. I like to write complex and abstract thoughts and the only way I can do that is through poetry. Although short stories are challenging to me, I think that they are a lot of fun. Part of the fun of writing is that it is a challenge to convey your thoughts into words. However, I feel like a lot of the daily prompts are childish. I don't really like writing them a whole lot because I feel that they have little or nothing to do at all with what we're writing about. For me, I think I like writing poetry the most because it is a simply style that doesn't require you to follow any strict rules. As the writer, you get to decide how the words flow, and what the meaning is. I like that.

2. I think my strongest piece of writing was the one that I wrote about the man and the creeping doubts that he has after his death. I feel like this is my strongest piece becasue I was able to finally use a strong metaphor (death) to explain my questions about life. I think I get a lot of my inspiration from this area of my thinking because I do have so many questions about things.

3. As a writer, I hate having direction and structure. However, I do feel that I need to be pushed to even start something because I am lazy. The writing is supposed to be an expression of your thoughts and ideas so to tell someone that you have to write about this, or you have to write about that, to me, is wrong. But it is neccessary to teach this class.

4. I don't really have any desire to pursue different areas of writing. I guess non-fiction would be cool, but it really doesn't matter. I would just like to write. A memoir would be cool too, but it'd be too early to write one at the age of 18.