Blog #3- 6 Word Memoirs I like

"Came out young, never looked back."

 I think being young is one of the best times in your life...although I don't exactly have anything else to bank that on, I'm still going to.  When my parents do something stupid or funny like talk in a weird accent or dance around, I don't necessarily think of them as my parents but as someone who is just being fun.  I want to always have some part of me that stays young.

"Dad's eyes. Mom's hair. My sarcasm."

 I'm honestly not sure if the whole "this part of dad/this part of mom" thing is true.  Both my parents have brown eyes and my mom has light blonde-ish hair while my dad has black hair...I have a mix!  But the sarcasm part is true!  My brother and I have both seem to develop some kind of genetic sarcasm trait that neither of my parents possess.  It's fantastic.  Having sarcasm helps me take lots of things that could aim to be insults in stride.  I can take it just as well as I can dish it.

"Love passionately. Think mathematically. Travel compulsively."

 Completely true.  This is something that I can seriously live by.  Love is something that you don't take for granted, you want to cherish it and hold it close to you.  The way you think is important to the way you live.  Think about the consequences, benefits, and after effects of everything you do.  It's mathematical and makes life easier.  Then there's traveling.  I want to be able to explore the world before I die, and I'm a very compulsive person.  Put these two together and you walla!  You have me, traveling the world while at the same time draining her bank account.

"Excuse me while I google that"

Google is a godsend.  I truly do not know what I would do if we didn't have google.  Need to find out how to put on your new bracelet?  Psh, please I can search that on google.  Although google is fantastic, it doesn't take much brain power to use it.  Direction: sit down at desk, open browser, go to google(if it isn't already your home page), ask question, receive answer. DONE.



"Wait, what is going on here?"


This is the definition of me. I'm 100% ADD and get totally lost all the time.  Most of my friends find this amusing but it can be extremely difficult to deal with.  It's hard to focus when I'm in class if I'm not entirely on the ball.  My attention slips a lot and I can lose my train of thought very easily.  I also embrace this part of myself.  I can be very fun and outgoing but settle down when I need to.

Goals for Growth

For this class, I have many different goals for myself as a writer.  The reason for taking this class is to improve my confidence in my writing, which would mean that I need to work on my writing skills.

 I need to work on my thoughtfulness when I'm writing any kind of given piece, something that I do sometimes, but not always like I should.  Not only do I need to express and interest in a topic that I’m writing about, I need to be able to list facts that can help prove a point I’m trying to make.  One way of making sure that I show a true interest and capture a reader is to try and imagine what I would think if I were somebody else reading my piece; if I find it uninteresting, chances are everyone else will.  Working on my voice is a skill that can be extremely useful when it comes to my writing.  If I were to be able to change my writing based on the emotions that I want to portray in my work, it can help capture the reader into wanting to read my work.

The other area that I believe I need to work in is variety.  I’m a very straight-forward person, which can make everything I write become similar and blend into one.   I also rely too much on my life experience.  I use soccer as a topic on multiple pieces and that makes what I’m writing about seem boring and not unique.  Ways that I can fix this is to try and write a short little story on a different genre three times a week.  One day I’ll write something that is a comedy, then maybe a horror/terror type story and then move on to romance.  If I don’t practice different genres of writing, when it comes time that I don’t have a choice with what I’m writing about I won’t have any experience and my writing won’t be nearly as good as it could be.

I took this class to improve my writing skills and with focusing on what I believe I need to improve in will help me achieve those goals.   

My first post ever.

Welcome to the first blog post I have ever written!  This blog is for my high school class, creative writing.  I've never had a blog before so this is a new and exciting thing for me to be able to write.  This blog is an introduction about myself, how I write, what I like to write, and what my strengths and weaknesses are as a writer. 

 I am 17 years old and a totally obnoxious person (then you get to know me and love me for it anyways).  I'm a junior in high school and I'm just starting to think about where I want to go to college and what I want to do with the rest of my life.  Thinking about what I'm going to do for the REST of my life is a very scary thing, I don't know what I want to spend my life doing, but I know I have to figure it out sooner rather than later.  I love to play soccer, so chances are I will make a lot of connections to it.  I love my family and my troublesome dog, Cooper.  I'm a very easy-going person, but according to my mother that can, at times, translate to being lazy.  I am lazy.  I admit that, but that doesn't mean that I don't try my hardest.  I'm also a very, hmmm, active person?  I have ADD which makes paying attention quite difficult at times and I'm usually constantly moving.  I've learned how I can work my best with this and I like to incorporate my fast life into my writing.

I don't have much experience in the realm of writing that has been read by the public, but I did have an article published in the Democrat and Chronicle.  Albeit I was in fourth grade; I'm still proud of that since I used to have trouble with writing when I was younger.  My strengths as a writer I'm not completely sure about.  I would like to assume it is how I try to hardest to create images that the reader can picture when they read my writing, I enjoy using descriptive words.  My weaknesses as a writer are my lack of fluidity and my obsession with putting the commas in the wrong places. 


My hopes for this class is that it will help me become more confident in my writing and aid me in improving my writing skills.  I can't wait to share all my improvements on this blog!