In my final blog post for this class I am going to be explaining some of the main take aways I am going to have. I have never enjoyed an English class more and am grateful to have had this class.
Before the beginning of this class, I wanted nothing to with writing. In high school, I always struggled in all of my English classes and found it so hard to get a decent grade on a paper. Throughout this class, I found that writing shouldn’t be forced in a way that would make me dread doing it. My professor this semester motivated us into slowly starting a writing process. I completed two formal assignments and dove into new ways of writing. Some new writing styles I worked on were reflection, composing scenes, and found poetry. Towards the beginning of this class, the main focus was conducting a scene. We wrote about scenes in the present, past, and even did a counterfactual part that changed the way our scenes played out. One informal assignment that I really enjoy was adding a counterfactual element to the story The Yellow Wallpaperwritten by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. We read the story then added a decision into it that changed how the how rest of the scene played out. I believe my descriptive writing has improved a lot considering I never used it prior to this course. I have learned a lot over the past couple of months and had fun doing it. In this class, I enjoyed our in-class discussions the most because no one was judgmental, and everyone had something interesting to say. I will have a lot I am going to take away from having this class but mostly I learned that writing isn’t a chore and now I enjoy doing it. I have started writing in a journal every night to make sure I don’t lose what I learned from this class.
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For this post I am going to be revising the scene I made in blog post 5. This scene is giving me the foundation I am going to use in my first formal assignment in this class. This scene is supposed to reflect a part in my life where someone made a bad design and it had a negative impact on me.
“BANG, BANG, BANG!” I hear a loud noise as I’m in the shower, but the running water is too loud to identify where its coming from. I end my shower abruptly to see what it is. I grabbed my towel and start drying off. I hear the banging again just to realize its on my bathroom door followed by yelling. All I hear is “Erin come quick!” and I recognized the voice. I am now panicked and begin to rush. I step out of the bathroom only just to see my friend Lindsey passed out on the bed and my other friend Maddie just hovering over her franticly trying to check her blood sugars. She is covered head to toe in sand. Her already pale skin has turned to a ghostly white. The panicked feeling returned. “I can’t figure this thing out!” Maddie yells as she’s trying to set up Lindsey’s diabetic supplies “what the hell happened?” I said to Maddie with a crack in my voice. Maddie replied “I--- I don’t know, I just saw Ryan carrying her off the beach and he said she was throwing up” “I was only gone 30 minutes; how could this have happened?” I check her blood sugars just for her meter screen to read “HI”. We’ve only been in the Bahamas for six hours now, but I can only imagine how much alcohol she has consumed in that time frame not even including how much sugar could’ve been in those fruity drinks. I instantly felt frustration towards her. Not only was I scared for her life, but this is something I would never expect coming from her. The strong smell of alcohol was radiating off of her as she tried to form words together. I left the beach early to start getting ready for the club later on that night but from the looks of Lindsey, I wasn’t going anywhere. Maddie left me because she felt as if this wasn’t her problem to deal with. My heart ached for her, I wouldn’t wish this on anyone. I rinsed her off in the shower as the alcohol starts to wear off. “I’m sorry” Lindsey tells me I felt a bit of relief knowing she was going to be okay. |
Inspiration"Step into a scene and let it drip from your fingertips"- MJ Bush Archives
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