Part A
My identity prior to creative writing was someone who honestly didn’t really enjoy writing and I couldn’t think of anything to write about so I was always thinking how am I going to do good in Creative writing class if I never have any ideas. I was also terrified of presenting or even posting stuff on my blog
But now at the end of the semester, after writing in the journals and reading other people’s blog and of course writing my own stuff I honestly fell in love with it. Now I can just write about anything and make it funny, sad, happy or just to rant about life in general. I also learned that no one is going to judge my work. I feel comfortable sharing stuff that I have written on my blog. I feel like my voice and structure has gotten a lot stronger since the beginning of the semester. I had ELA last semester and the stuff I learned this semester would have helped me a lot in ELA. The knowledge and the techniques that I have learned this semester I will definitely use in my upcoming years. Also, I finally know what a compound-complex sentence is. I would always get confused and just give up on it but I feel so smart knowing now. I think my ideas have expanded. Where before I would have never thought of the ideas that I have now. And I would have never have written what I wrote on my blog in a million years. When I think about it, my writing has improved in a way where I can describe things and how I write my sentences and how ideas are always popping into my head.
My voice is something that can be described that spooky. When I want to I can write creepy stuff. That can really creep people out. That’s just how I am. I feel like it’s easier for me to describe things when I’m writing creepy stories and poems. That’s why I love Edgar Allan Poe so much. His stories are on another level. They are amazing.
I think one advice I could tell other creative writer is to have fun with it. Don’t overthink it because it’s not an L.A class. You can write about anything and no one would judge your work. So when writing just write something that means something to you. There are no critical essays so you can chill. Creative writing can be a lot of work ( If you don’t do what you are supposed to do) But then at the end you look at your blog and you feel accomplished as to what you did throughout the whole semester. Believe me, it feels amazing.
My future goal is to continue writing. No matter if I am in English class or if I am in a creative writing class. I want to continue writing for myself.
Part B
As a blogger what I would say would be a positive thing about my blog would be the nice aesthetics that I have. The stars that are on the front page. Also, another thing that I would say would be a positive is some of my writing. I feel proud for some of my writing that I have put up.
What I need to improve on would be organizing my front blog more. This is my first time actually even creating a blog so I was a little confused on how to organize it. But if I did it again I think I would be a little bit better at organizing my blog.
After this course, I think I’ll just leave it alone. I feel like this is a trial for me. To test it out and to see what I can do with the blog. I might even write some things and even post them on my blog during the summer. A person’s blog that I would still follow would be tolu’s. Not because she is my friend but because I have read all of her writing pieces and I am always in awe of her writing. I can tell that she wrote it from the heart. I aspire to write like her in the future. If I’m being honest I actually haven’t checked out any bloggers but for sure I would want to see some bloggers during the summer.
Part C
What I would say would be an “Aha” was when we were talking the elements. Water, fire, Earth, air. When we were discussing the four elements for some reason I was just so in awe. The characteristics of each an every element and how each person falls into each element. I just found that all interesting. I really enjoyed learning about that in class.
What I have accomplished as a reader would be actually reading a lot this semester. I usually don’t read as much as I have this semester so I’m proud of myself. The best book that I have read this semester would be Mr. Mercedes. It was so creepy but I loved it so much. It was really suspenseful and I just absolutely loved it.
I think that reading improves your writing because if you read a lot and you see how authors describe things in a book and when you are about to write something yourself you can kind of use that as inspiration to make your writing better.
What I have accomplished as a writer would be showing my work to the rest of the bloggers in my class. I would never be able to show my writings to anyone and now I’m perfectly fine posting anything on my blog.
I think I will take Creative writing again because I feel like it really did improve my writing. And I feel like it’ll help in my last two years of high school and so on. My next steps to improve as a writer would be just writing more. I feel like if I write more it’ll help me improve more as a writer.
Part D
I’m glad that we did Edgar Allan Poe because I love his writings and to be able to just talk about him in front of the class it was amazing. Genres that I am interested in is creepy, murder, mystery and scary. What I learned was that a person doesn’t all of sudden become an amazing writer. Some of them didn’t even get recognition for their writing in the first place like Edgar Allan Poe. When he started writing he no one was really interested in his writing. But later on his life, his writing became this amazing writer who wrote bone-chilling short stories. So I would say I learned is that not everything didn’t come so easy for writers the first time around. I intend to read a lot more about Edgar Allan Poe. I have already read so much but I just want to read more of his pieces because they are amazing.
I don’t even know where to begin with Liam’s blog. Everything about it is just amazing. This blog aesthetics to his writing. It is just absolutely amazing. I aspire to be like that one day. I loved his blog from day one and I’m so happy I was able to comment on his writings.
http://recklessromance.edublogs.org/
Liza’s blog is amazing. I love how she put her culture into her blog. How she has Russian writing is everywhere and is in her writing as well. Her writing is beautiful. She is one of my inspiration in the creative writing and in drama because she is amazing at both.
http://theblacklotus.edublogs.org/
Tolu’s blog I love. How she embraces her skin color and doesn’t care about anyone’s opinion. That her is her blog. Talking about how beautiful her skin is how she takes things people say and counters that. I get chills whenI’mm reading her pieces because there is truth to what she write in her blog.
Part E
The significance of the title I Remember is that i remember my grandfather even if he passed away when i was a young child. https://imastarboy.edublogs.org/2018/06/03/i-remember/
My theme would be rememberance and what happens is that i’m talking about how alike we both are. The purpose for this piece was that i wanted to write something that is personal for me. And i would say it took me 10 minutes to write because i was just in the zone when writing this poem. I cried while writing it but i got it done. I just wanted to write about how my late grandfather and i are alike in so many ways and how i remember how he was like when he was alive regardless of my age. The only influence i really had was my memories. My memories of me and him together laughing and being loud. In my poem, i would repeat the words I Remember and i wrote my poem as if i was taking to my late grandfather. The feedback i got from this poem was good what i mostly had was gumps other than that i got good comments on this poem. My final thoughts would be that i am very proud of this poem. I feel like it was my best on yet. And that my grandfather will always be remembered because he was an amazing man.
The title of my other poem Night Terrors is significant because when i was a little i would have night terrors and i decided to write about that.https://imastarboy.edublogs.org/2018/04/29/night-terrors/
My theme for this piece would be darkness because that’s how i would feel when i was younger.
The purpose for this piece was that i wanted to write something that had happened to me when I was younger. And so i wanted to share to everybody what i went through when i was 6 years old. The influence i had for this piece would be the disorder itself. The style i had for this pieces was that i was referring to the disorder as It and bolding the words to emphasize how i felt at the moment. The feedback i got for this piece was all positive except for just some mistakes that i might have made but i fixed them when i went back for editing. My final thoughts for this poem is that i am actually proud of this piece that i have written and hopefully can write more like this poem.
